# First Human Clone **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [December 27, 2002, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-human-clone/145230 "2002-12-27T21:01:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![twelfthsign](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ce73a5/32.png) [@twelfthsign](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twelfthsign)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2002, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-human-clone/145230/1 "2002-12-27T21:01:32Z")
Kindly follow this link, [http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181\_127300,0005.htm](http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_127300,0005.htm) There is this para towards the end, **The Raelians, who claim 55,000 followers worldwide, believe that life on Earth was established by extra-terrestrials who arrived in flying saucers 25,000 years ago, and that humans themselves were created by cloning.** Whatever are these Raelians? And Aliens?!! ---
**Author:** ![twelfthsign](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ce73a5/32.png) [@twelfthsign](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twelfthsign)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2002, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-human-clone/145230/2 "2002-12-27T21:04:59Z")
Uhmm due to some connection time out, this msg got posted like thrice, …apologies. I’m hoping the moderator can pull off the other two. ---
**Author:** ![fauxpas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e480ec/32.png) [@fauxpas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fauxpas)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2002, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-human-clone/145230/3 "2002-12-27T21:09:25Z")
OMG!!! FIRST HUMAN CLONED TODAY!!! READ!! [www.cnn.com](http://www.cnn.com) search and it should be on the front page. I dont believe. ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2002, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-human-clone/145230/4 "2002-12-27T21:12:17Z")
Duplicate threads deleted. The [homepage of the Raelian movement](http://www.rael.org/) seems to be down right now; I don’t know if it’s a permanent condition or not–possibly their servers are simply being overloaded from all the extra attention they’re no doubt getting. Here is a [web page on the movement](http://religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu/nrms/rael.html) from the [Religious Movements Homepage](http://religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu/home.html) at the University of Virginia. ---
**Author:** ![twelfthsign](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ce73a5/32.png) [@twelfthsign](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twelfthsign)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2002, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-human-clone/145230/5 "2002-12-27T21:20:29Z")
[http://www.cnn.com/2002/HEALTH/12/27/cloning.raelians.ap/index.html](http://www.cnn.com/2002/HEALTH/12/27/cloning.raelians.ap/index.html) So the first baby girl’ named Eve, whats next Adam? These Raelian’s (whoever/whatever) need a life. (pun intended) Oh! and, **Fauxpas** thumbs up for the CNN link. ---
**Author:** ![tanstaafl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba8739/32.png) [@tanstaafl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tanstaafl)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2002, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-human-clone/145230/6 "2002-12-27T21:21:16Z")
A direct link to the CNN article is [here](http://www.cnn.com/2002/HEALTH/12/27/human.cloning/index.html). Note that this has yet to be confirmed by any outside agency. Presumably someone could verify it by taking a DNA sample from both the baby and donor and comparing them. I’d wait for independent verification before jumping to any conclusions though… After all, the Raelian movement consists of people who think humanity was created through cloning by a group of aliens some few thousand years ago, so I have an automatic suspicion of the validity of any other scientific announcements they may make. ---
**Author:** ![tanstaafl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba8739/32.png) [@tanstaafl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tanstaafl)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2002, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-human-clone/145230/7 "2002-12-27T21:23:14Z")
Just fyi: not quite a simulpost. twelfthsign’s link relates to the Raelians, the one I posted is to an article on the cloning claim.