Would a clone have a soul?

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We can agree that the complete cloning of a human being is something that should never happen but if it does, would the clone possess a human soul?
 
If the clone is a human, and is alive, then it would have a human soul.

The soul is the essential form of the body. It is what animates (ie, gives life to) the body. All living things ‘have’ souls/ ‘are’ souls.

Not all souls are the same. Theologians list ‘rational’ souls, ‘sensitve’ souls, and ‘vegetative’ souls. Angels and Humans are rational. Animals other than man are sensitive, and plants are vegetative.

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My opinion is that they will never clone a human, God won’t let them. Animals and plants is one thing but humans is totally different and to my knowledge all attempts to clone humans have failed miserably.
 
Are you sure it hasn’t happened yet? I think there was a time when some doctors were reported trying to clone humans in some part of the planet where it was not illegal and could be protected, I don’t remember details.

I think that one day we may be surprised by an already grown up person claiming to be a clone. They may not let us know that they did it, but they may put us to an accomplished fact. Just to let us see what we do with the clone.

As about ‘God won’t let it happen’ I hope so. But God’s ways are not our ways. I am always sad when I though God would’nt let something happen and then realise that he did let it happen.
Isn’t IVF evil enough, why does God let it happen, why let all those embrios get frozen for years and be awakened when needed like products from a store. Is this really far from cloning?

Or may be I am missing something

God bless
 
jprioli said:
If the clone is a human, and is alive, then it would have a human soul.
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Sure it would. A clone is, more or less, an identical twin that’s manufactured in a lab. Identical twins are produced naturally, and so we already see this process operate in nature.
 
Brandon777 said:
My opinion is that they will never clone a human, God won’t let them. Animals and plants is one thing but humans is totally different and to my knowledge all attempts to clone humans have failed miserably.
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God is not going to stop His laws of nature from operating. If scientists can discover a way to use them to create clones, then it will happen.

Besides, how are clones morally different from IVF? The only difference is that you aren’t starting from germ cells.
 
Fidelis said:
Heck with clones – how about ZOMBIES?:

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I know how you feel, ZOMBIES, they really freak me out especially after the movie “The Night Of The Living Dead”. Man, that movie was scary. The good thing about it was you can re-kill zombies…Which makes me wonder…Can you clone a zombie…now there is a scary proposition. It would be like they would never stop. I hate it when things like that happen.
 
At least corporate America found a use for the zombies, remember that the next time you order through the Mc Donalds drive thru. 😃
 
Brian_Millar said:
At least corporate America found a use for the zombies, remember that the next time you order through the Mc Donalds drive thru. 😃
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As a Cloned Zombie I am completely affended by this! I work the front register not the drive through.:mad:

Cloned Zombies are people to!!!😃
 
GreenLantern said:
We can agree that the complete cloning of a human being is something that should never happen but if it does, would the clone possess a human soul?
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Yes. The fact that his DNA is a replica of another person’s is irrelevant.
 
Brandon777 said:
My opinion is that they will never clone a human, God won’t let them. Animals and plants is one thing but humans is totally different and to my knowledge all attempts to clone humans have failed miserably.
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I don’t agree. God allows a lot of things that are terribly wrong and completely contrary to His Will. It’s that dad gum free with thing. However, I agree with the previous posters that any living human has a unique soul. A clone would be very similar to an identical twin, just born apart in time and space. We have identical twin sons and they are two very different persons indeed.
 
Clones like what was mentioned already are identical twins.
But i guess the topic here is clones that were made in labs, personally i don’t know if they’ll have souls, because our souls are given by God at conception, so for a clone, where’s the point of conception? Is it the moment the sperm and egg fuse? Or after the embryo divides into 2,4,8… cells? Which point?

IF it’s after a certain ‘point’, than does that mean we can do whatever cell research we want on embryos that haven’t crossed that threshold?

IF so, this would be a way around embryonic research wouldn’t it?🤷
 
Ok, keeping along these tangents here, might as well throw in another theory into the works. If you recall from Star Trek, where they are able to dematerialize human beings and beam them accross space, if we were to develop that technology, wouldn’t this in a sense force the soul to flee the body, and if so, does the individual lose it in the process and re-materialize as a soul-less creature?
 
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