Clone-God, Part Ii

...Now human cloning is always borderline, but it this case all agreed to it, fast, a chance to disprove a major religion, what academic would pass up that? A good many of them seemed rather glad, but they all agreed to do this in secret, they had to be sure, and were not there yet. They took the DNA, and a donor egg, in the artificial womb they both went, a new machine the size of a van, that, ironically, many thought heaven-sent, since it had brought abortion to an end. A device that had saved so many lives… now used to disprove all religion’s ‘lies.’ About a year in the child looked like a small boy, somewhere around six years old. one day Pete looked in, and felt uncertain, had for a while, if the truth be told, and said to Tom, who by now felt quite bold, “I know you are smart, have lots of degrees, but have you really thought what this might unleash?” “It will final show superstitious folk that no deity will ever be real,” said Tom as if talking to a child, “And that with facts and reason they must deal, and that the world does not care how they feel.” Pete sighed and said, “How have you gone so far without knowing people, what we really are?” Tom just scowled at the janitor’s words, then he snapped back,”Aren’t you on the clock?” He didn’t say more, didn’t get him fired, as a worker he was solid as a rock, but like most men had a head like a block. Tom refocused on the task before him, another year passed, they prepared to go in. Thanks to advances in technology, growth in DNA they could accelerate, which means in two years Tom’s people had grown what took a normal person two decades, though they could not, in this way, educate. So what came out would be a large baby, and not some living god, all people would see. They were planning a big reveal next week, but for Tom that just wasn’t soon enough, he’d put so much effort in this project, put in long hours, done the media stuff, he wanted to see the results so much… He went in late one night while Pete cleaned the room, and boldly opened the Artificial Womb... CONCLUDES IN PART III.