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in continuing their work, and I was especially pleased when she dramatically announced in December 2002 the front page global headline news that was perhaps the biggest breakthrough of the entire 32-year mission to date: Clonaid had successfully assisted the birth of the world's first cloned human baby, a little girl nick-named “Eve”. Although up to the time of writing, legal complexities have delayed publication of the scientific proof of this successful human cloning, there was no doubt that the name of the Raelian Movement and what planet. The next step required will be to make possible the transfer of mental information, memory and personality from an aging individual into a new, physically young adult clone. This transfer of memory directly into a young adult means that effectively the same individual can live indefinitely. Human laws will have to be adapted to our changing culture and increasing technological advances. These are still early days for all such issues, but new laws will have to be passed to define criteria setting out who will be allowed to benefit from these technologies. Here, as on the Elohim's planet, the number of clones may need to be limited to one per individual, and then only after death. ; This year, another breakthrough of perhaps similar magnitude occurred, as is mentioned briefly in the Foreword to this book, when a peer-reviewed article appeared in a Washington scientific journal effectively announcing the academic acceptance of a new theory of Intelligent Design. This publication marked the first formal high-level academic challenge to Darwin's outdated and unproven evolutionary theory. As a result, over the past year or so, Intelligent Design, or ID, has attracted growing attention and inspired much debate in academic circles and beyond in America, Europe and worldwide. In particular, as I write these words, a raging debate is underway in the United States about the introduction of the Intelligent Design theory into schools as an alternative to Darwin's Theory of Evolution. nan co 1 : 1 Opponents of this see the move as an attempt to reintroduce “God” officially into the nation's schools despite the Supreme 366 INTELLIGENT DESIGN: MESSAGE FROM THE DESIGNERS it stood for had become common knowledge everywhere around the