| There are approximately 350,000 Raelians world-wide, including some in Australia. Started in France in 1973, by Claude Vorilhon, known as the prophet Rael, the group believes that aliens from space visited the earth about 25,000 years ago and created life using advanced DNA technology.
According to the journal Nova Religio, they have founded a biotechnology firm in Switzerland dedicated to the goal of human cloning. The firm is currently offering deep freezing of human beings for $50,000 per person. They plan to offer human cloning services at about $200,000 per clone. The group believes that human beings will eventually achieve immortality through cloning.
Philip Hughes
(from Religion Watch, December 1999)
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