You should do a search. This was asked in another thread. All human beings have a soul whether they are clones or not.
Yes, the do have a soul, created by God.
No.
No. The soul is not material. It is specially created by God.
I am certain that at the moment of conception God creates that person’s human immortal soul. I think clones might have some kind of animated soul, but not a human one.
A “clone” of a human is a human-- just as an embryo created through IVF is a human-- and all humans have human souls.
No it’s not. Cloning is an entirely different process. A clone is created from cells of an already existing person - an exact biological copy of that person. In an IVF procedure or normal human reproduction the sperm and ovum are brought together, conception occurs and a new person is created. Where there is conception there is a new life.
When you create a clone, you do get a new person. They are unique with their own life experiences that cause them to grow and cahnge. There is no way that a clone would be exactly like the person cloned. For one thing, the clone would be younger.
No you don’t; what you get is a biological copy of the same person who would then have different life experiences. Life experiences do not make us human; we are human at the moment of conception - before we have any life experiences.
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Twins have identical genes. Are they two different people?
1ke said:
Or you could ask: Does He create souls for babies created by invitro fertilization? They are also made “outside the biological process He created.”
Twins aren’t cloned they start from a fertilized ovum. The genetic material is provided by a father and mother (sperm & egg). What makes them twins is a result of cell divison.
Children have come out of rape situtations, horrendously distorted offenses against sex. Children come from IVF. He gave man dominion over this world. Why does he still create people? Why does He allow evil? I don’t know, but He is God and He is a whole heck of a lot smarter than I am.
Well, what I am sure of is that God creates the soul at the moment of conception. If conception occurs with a sperm and ovum then there would be a complete human life. I’m not certain that a clone would have a human soul, because it was brought about by using cells of an already existing person. If as we say human life begins at conception and since a clone isn’t conceived I doubt it would be a complete human being.
Yes. All human persons have spiritual souls created by God regardless of their “method” of conception. The Church already teaches authoritatively regarding children created via IVF and other artificial technologies, cloning is merely another variation on IVF.
You are using a very narrow definition of conception here indicating that there must be egg and sperm for conception to occur.
Well, If by narrow do you mean I’m excluding those critters that reproduce asexually, well then yes. I’m sure you realize that bisexual reproduction is the norm for just about every species on the planet. Conception in every instance brings fourth new life, no matter how diverse the process is. Cloning is a copy of existing life with material from one person stuffed into the hollowed out nucleus of somone/something elses cell and then cell division needs to be induced.
My point is that in cloning there is no conception at all. In every other instance genetic material comes from sperm and ovum; thus fertilization/conception and a new person. Cloning is creating a copy of what already has been created.
I would point out though that God made Adam a male and Eve a female with the command them to be fruitfull and multiply. Clearly God desires humanity to reproduce bisexually. I think if God wanted us to clone ourselves (reproduce asexually) we’d all be dandelions or amoebas.
