Is science destroying the way we live?

Stem cell research is not the same as cloning. Stem cells are taken from already dead material and are used to advance knowledge that will benefit the living. There's a controversy over it because of where the stem cells come from. But cloning, at least at our current level of knowledge is 100% unethical because at our current level of knowledge the animal/human is born pineappleed up, experiences severe pain, and then dies. You cannot compare the two.

That's not quite an accurate depiction of "cloning". Cloning simply means a genetically identical copy. Much of cloning techniques currently used are at the micro-biology level to clone genes using bacterial replication mechanisms. Therefore it is a very useful tool in genetic research.

The way I understand it, it seems like a lot of controversy comes from a question of whether scientists are ethical enough to handle the power that comes with being able to use stem cells to grow new tissues. There is much good that can be derived from using stem cells, and to restrict research completely in that direction would lose much in potential cures and treatments. The scientists engaged in this research are not there to try to grow new species of humans, they are trying to find a viable alternative (for example) for people in desperate need of organ transplants.

Stem cell research and cloning do go hand in hand, because any tissue you grow from a stem cell are derived from that stem cell, and by definition of how mitosis (cell division) works, they are, in theory, all clones of the original stem cell.

I don't think science is destroying the way we live. Is there not something magical as well in being able to figure out how stuff works? And even if we are all composed of the same particles, is it not miraculous how very different we all are, despite that?