Could humans(ourselves) make humans?

"Playing God" doesn't usually mean that the scientist is afraid that someone from heaven is going to zap his butt with a lightning bolt. It means that the scientist (or someone close to the scientist) has realized that they are close to opening a pandora's box that is full of ethical questions that should be considered before the "box" is opened. Alfred Nobel realized that once he told people how to stabilize dynamite, that he had done a lot of good and about five times more evil for the world--just by doing what a scientist does. So when a scientist hears "playing god" it is time for him to step back and consider the ramifications of the world learning what he has just discovered or invented. Sometimes the scientist should ignore that objection, and other times should consider it.

Cloning is nearly possible to do on humans. This brings up a lot of issues that have been addressed by science fiction and real scientists debating ethics. First, a lot of the public has this conception that clones will be the new slaves--they may work for us 'real people', they would most likely be organ donors for us, and if we got really good at cloning, they could be genetically superior people trained to have superior ability who are still enslaved by society. Or maybe we will be bright enough to have learned from past mistakes and make no attempt to enslave the clones, and a clone will simply be a baby with a twin or ten someplace. Then you run into Gattaca problems--will a 'faith baby' conceived the old fashioned way be able to compete in the real world with children engineered to have the potential to be the very best at something(s). Would you get the opposite of clone discrimination--would uncloned people be discriminated against for genetic inferiority?

So when a scientist is accused of playing god, he should just slow down and consider the ramifications of his discovery. He may decide that what he learned would have been inevitably learned by somebody. Or he may decide to bury his work and try to get others off the trail before he unleashes something horrible upon the world. Or maybe, before releasing enough details to be followed, he could get the discussion started on ethics and how his discovery or invention should and shouldn't be used before it is made public that the invention is a reality.

The only sci-fi I've seen involving clones that were neither slaves nor superior still involved questionable ethics. They felt it was moral enough to raise clones but destroy most of their brains so they wouldn't have consciousness or thought, and would be perfect body part donors for the person they were cloned from. In all of the rest, the clones are abused or end up taking over the 'real' people.

Yes, we could. Many countries clone human embryos in order to harvest stem cells for research that could cure all sorts of diseases. With the right technology, those embryos could theoretically grow inside a surrogate mother and be born as a living, if quite unhealthy, human child.

However there's really no point in doing it and it would be very expensive, not to mention unethical given how the child would most likely suffer and die at a young age and be subjected to experiments that contravene human rights laws. Cloning is not really a viable means of reproduction; there are always genetic complications.

We wouldn't really learn anything from it that we can't learn from cloning sheep. Cloning individual organs for transplants would be much more useful than cloning a human child who probably wouldn't live very long.

Neanderthals became extinct after about 250,000 years and the today's day human is best about forty,000 years ancient. I might be amazed if we last so long as the neanderthals did. Species must die off and face extinction for new species to come up and flourish. It is usually a combo of both, we will be able to continue to adapt however there is also some variety of occurrance or incedent that we could now not continue to exist. Anything is feasible. Good look at that, detect how protecting christians get.. I suppose they are getting a tad bit scared..

I believe in God, when Man interferes with life they have been known to become power-hungry. If we began cloning humans you better bet Governments will create humans to be killing machines or come other kind of monster.

Technically they make humans now, in fertility clinics. Gene splicing offers tremendous possibility's in the future, I can foresee where farm workers will be hybrid gorillas/humans very strong and just smart enough to do the job.

We can do ot but you would need a woman to grow the baby in so it would be just like doing it normaly aso i think its unethical to clone someone the clone would not know who she/he is why theres another one of him walking around and if you told him/her that she/he is a clone he/ge would be confused and sad an might comit succide

Well, considering God DOES exist...