Will a Clone of a Human have a Human Soul?

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soul enter human at conception but it’s not limited in just that case. see how the Adam obviously got the soul out of the womb.
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About Adam—Straight Creationsists say God created Adam’s body out of dust, and then when Adam’s body was completed, God breathed a soul into him and he came to life. So was Adam’s soul created when his body was completed???

As far a Jesus Christ goes … He was conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit and I think we should just leave His Divine Infancy out of the discussion. He is a special case!

And for that matter, maybe Adam is also a special case.

This stuff makes my brain ache. LOL!
 
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GoldenArrow:
About Adam—Straight Creationsists say God created Adam’s body out of dust, and then when Adam’s body was completed, God breathed a soul into him and he came to life. So was Adam’s soul created when his body was completed???
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Yes. but it didn’t enter his body in the womb. God can make soul enter body anywhere he wants.
 
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Yes. but it didn’t enter his body in the womb. God can make soul enter body anywhere he wants.
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From a Thomistic sense of form and matter (a sense which is essential to the transubstantiation understanding of the Eucharist) that makes no sense. As for Aquinas, the soul is the form of the body but because of its intellectual abilities, the soul survives the death of the body…but the resurrection of the body is essential to the Catholic understanding of salvation and the unity of the body.

As for cloning, the very question is rediculous. Twins are essentially clones given that a group of stem cells with identical DNA seperates from the other after conception. My brothers are twins (identical twins run in the family) and I assure you that they both have souls (and soles) even if sometimes I think they might require exorcism. It has no bearing on the status of the human being whether the body is formed inside or outside the uterus…such as in test-tube babies. St./Pope John XXIII (or at least **should ** be a saint) even congratulated the first test-tube babies.
 
That is, is a clone merely a graft of someone who already exists?

Sorry to be a dork, but I am a horticulturist and i have to say that a graft is the union of something, not a replica. when you graft a tree you take one plant and graft it to another to get benefits from both. a clone is more of a “cutting”

Am I a dork now?
 
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GoldenArrow:
Do natural twins share one placenta, or do they each have their own?
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Identical twins may or may not share a placenta. It depends on when they twinned. The later the “twinning” the more likely they will share a placenta.

R. Taylor
www.MaryMeetsDolly.com
A Catholic’s Guide to Biotechnology
 
The Church teaches that life begins at conception and the two elements of conception are the sperm and egg. This does not occur in the cloning process, so I’m thinking that a cloned human would be a “fictional human”; having all the appearances of humanity, but not being truly human. That being said; I don’t think that this “fictional human” would have a soul because it was brought about in a method outside of conception, outside of the reproductive process God created.
 
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GoldenArrow:
Question of the day is:
WILL A CLONE OF A HUMAN HAVE A HUMAN SOUL?

A person over at Defenders of the Catholic Faith posted this question and we’ve been debating it this past week. The best answer we can come up with is, “We don’t know.”

I would like to know what you all think.
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I think that “We don’t know” sums it up perfectly.

The only question that remains is, “Who cares?”

I can answer that one - not me!

Phil
 
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rhtaylor:
If clone do not have a souls, then therapeutic cloning and research on those clones would not be unethical.
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It was my understanding that the term “therapeutic cloning” was just another name for “somatic cell nuclear transfer” (i.e. the removing of the nucleus of an unfertilized egg cell and replacing it with the material from the nucleus of a somatic cell (not a sperm cell or an egg cell) and stimulating this cell to begin dividing.

Where did this somatic cell come from? A differentiated adult cell (arm, leg, internal organ)? An undifferentiated adult stem cell? An embryo? If an embryo had to be destroyed in order to extract the stem cells, then research on those clones would definitely be unethical.
 
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