Another Bellingham source, communication student Jerry Galloway, who heard Rorvik speak about the experiment in a journalism class said, “the writer described his donor client as maybe in his 70’s but looking about in his 50’s, a very fine specimen of a man.” Galloway said, “Rorvik told the students the donor was a multi-millionaire who had grown up in poverty an orphan. He said he wanted a son to raise in a manner he had never experienced in his youth.” According to the Front article the donor told Rorvik he had brought his proposal to him because of Rorvik’s extensive background in writing about cloning and related subjects. Rorvik said the client asked him to obtain scientific and medical personnel who could perform the procedure. “I found the medical and research people needed for the procedure and a very efficient research project was started,” said Rorvik after he convinced himself that the client was indeed sane. He told the student reporter that he came to feel the project was good and would be a great step for mankind. Cloning, a procedure for growing exact replicas of the donor from a single mature cell taken from that donor was performed in secrecy to protect the donor, the cloned human, the scientific researchers the medical personnel and the surrogate mother who provided the womb for the full-term gestation. Rorvik said he had a contractual agreement with the donor and himself to maintain this secrecy.
The book written by these two men Rifkin and Howard is entitled something like: “Who can play God?” Now your Bible opens with these words: ‘In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.’ Anthroughout the first chapter of the book of Genesis we find the creation of God brought forth and then we read of the glorious and wonderful creation of man.
God created man in his own image and in his own likeness. As we look at what we are considering tonight, first of all let me say this to you that cloning is a horticulture term. In the Greek, the word is klon, and it means a twig or a sprout. Interesting isn’t it, because in the scripture the Lord Jesus is spoken of as the ‘Sprout’ or as the ‘Branch’. I’m going to use just one scripture, I guess I’m going to have three little asides here. But if you will turn with me to the book of Zechariah, the sixth chapter we are going to read verse twelve, Zechariah six verse twelve. ‘And speak unto him, saying, Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Behold the man whose name is The BRANCH; and he shall grow up out of his place, and he shall build the temple of the LORD:(KJV). Now to clone means, in Greek, a twig or a sprout. Branch is one of the names given in the Old Testament to the Lord Jesus Christ. He is God’s Branch. He is that twig or sprout that came forth from the root of Jesse. I don’t think that terms such as this are just circumstantial nor happenstancial. I think we are faced with an attempt, in the end of the age, for man to produce everything that God has produced. Now to clone, to us, to the horticulturalist simply means to breed not with the true seed, or to take a bud or a graft or whatever other means men might use and produce a tree.