VATICAN CITY — The Vatican joined leading Muslim clerics and Jewish rabbis yesterday in denouncing as immoral, "brutal" and unnatural the claim that a cloned baby had been born.
The reaction came a day after a cloning company whose leader believes space aliens created life on Earth announced that a baby girl, nicknamed Eve by doctors, had been born and was a clone of her mother.
Papal spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls in a statement noted that the announcement came with no scientific proof, and that it "has already given rise to the skepticism and moral condemnation of a great part of the international scientific community."
"But already, the announcement in itself is an expression of a brutal mentality, devoid of any ethical and human consideration," the statement said.
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