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The prediction that it would be possible to clone a human being in two years did not in the event prove accurate. However, Rael founded a new company called Clonaid that same year which became the first commercial enterprise in the world offering cloning services to the public - and in December 2002 five years after the announcement of Dolly's birth, Dr Brigitte Boisselier, Clonaid's president, announced at a crowded press conference in Miami that the company had assisted the first successful cloned human birth of a baby girl named Eve. Dr Boisselier later announced that Clonaid had achieved a world. Legal complications halted Clonaid's plan to present immediate medical and scientific proof of these cloned births to the world and that remained the position in the autumn of 2005 as this book was going to press. Dr Boisselier explained publicly that Clonaid's wish to protect the privacy and security of the cloned babies and their parents was the prime concern, but proof of Clonaid's achievements would be published at the right time. Meanwhile, new advances in understanding cloning, DNA and stem cells continue to appear regularly in our newspapers contributing new support to what Rael has been writing and saying over the past thirty years. In one notable example, Japanese scientists announced that their research indicated that the gene pool for all races on Earth originated from a surprisingly small common base dating back approximately 13,000 years. This figure echoed what Rael had written with uncanny precision since the Elohim had said they began their work here 25,000 years ago and had spent some 12,000 years preparing the planet and creating the ecology, the marine and bird life and then land mammals before embarking con 1 : bal 1 " te : finally on the creation of human beings 'in their own image’. Rael says the Elohim leaders have been alive continually during those 25,000 years, having long since learned how to genetically recreate the human body with memory and personality intact. Soon, they contend, we will be able to expand our own average life span to around 1,000 years on our way to emulating them. Rael says they also monitor the thoughts and deeds of every individual on Earth by xviii INTELLIGENT DESIGN: MESSAGE FROM THE DESIGNERS succession of other cloned births in a number of countries around the