If scientists finally were able to clone a human being perfectly, do you think it would have a 'soul'?

Question

Uh...no you and you know who you are, this is not a dumb question! it is legitamate. I personally have no concrete belief is a "soul" I just wanted some opinions on this, someone answered that if it existed it had gone through the same cell division or process therefore would be able to have a soul, while that may be true, it would not have developed in a mothers womb. So if it is created by a scientist in a lab instead of by a man and a woman then it is different no matter if it speaks, feels pain or any other human charactaristics. So if it dies would it go on to some sort of afterlife? thats the point.

Answer 1

I'm not sure...........Thats an eerie thought.... *shudder*

Answer 2

I often have wondered about that too. It most and likely would if they could clone a human being to act human and have all the senses a human being has. If it didn't have a soul, it would be just a shell. A soul is what makes anything alive, move because the soul is the life. I believe that even tiny bugs have a little soul.
I think that if God allowed this, He would breath life into the vessel as He did Adam.
And by the way, people who say that we don't have a soul and some myth that we would never die if we did have one ... HELLO!
A soul is invisible! It doesn't die! Our bodies are the shells that die and the soul lives on! That's why we have one!
Molecules, gases and all kinds of squiggly wiggly existence is IMPOSSIBLE to exist without a creator! Nothing just happens! If people think molecules ALWAYS existed, then they are admitting that there is a such thing as a no beginning! Might as well believe in God!
Sorry about the rant. I hate evolution!

Answer 3

It seems to me that this would have to be between you and your belief system, not a function of science. Since there is no scientific "proof" that a soul even exists as a separate entity, it cannot be answered by science that a clone would or would not have a soul. Why, for instance, is it claimed by most Western religions that animals don't have souls, only people? How is this determined?

If only God creates a soul, then does any human that was not "created" by an "act of God" have a soul? Such as a test-tube baby? A child born from artificial insemination? Or Fertility drug treatments?

In my opinion, every thing has a "soul", though I prefer to use the term "spirit." Even non-living things have spirit. But that's my opinion, not science.

Answer 4

Man will never clone a human despite what some people believe. We may be able to clone the body, but not what matters - the soul or spirit - as that is the true human. God is the ultimate Creator, not humans. All we can do is build or make things from the creations of God. Since the soul is a creation of God, not something that can be built, the clone would have no soul. In fact, I don't think we will ever be able to clone humans. I don't believe God would stand for it. We are only able to do what He gives us knowledge to do in the first place. And thank goodness. Can you imagine a clone of Adolf Hitler, Ted Bundy or the 9/11 terrorists? No thanks.

Answer 5

Yes, assuming souls exist. The soul as viewed in Christian tradition is not considered a physical phenomenon. It is a bit of God within us. It finds it's expression through free will choices, and perhaps in conscience. It's a little like the mind-brain duality. We know that the chemical & electrical activity within and between the neurons of the brain are necessary for thinking to occur, but that physical activity does not cause nor fully explain any thought in the mind. Being human would mean having a soul, regardles of how that human came into being. I suspect that other creatures (chimpanzees, dolphins) may also have souls.

Answer 6

Yes that human being would have a soul. The soul is the part we cannot touch which makes us aware, think, resolve, love and so forth. Unfortunately, if life is eternal as religion tells us and if that soul ended up in hell and the one cloned from ended up in heaven!?!?!?! Those scientist would have created an eternal problem for someone who would otherwise not have existed.

Answer 7

Yes it would have a soul. Scientists wouldnt have gotten so smart on and to the point of creating a human being if not helped by divine power. So in reality God would've created that life.

Answer 8

No, the idea that living flesh is animated by supernatural souls was put forth by ancient people who had no knowledge of biochemistry, the soul concept has been rendered redundant.

Why do you think the person it was cloned from has a soul?

I'm looking forward to sentient robots, they'll finally put this 'soul' silliness to bed.

Answer 9

if it was alive, it goes through the same processes that the ones that weren't cloned would have gone through - cell division, structure, development, so where ever the soul pops in, it would. clones are still made from a female's egg and DNA - the same stuff you're made of.

Answer 10

Yes of course it would have a soul. However the real delimma is the part about "perfect cloning". Thats kind of an oxymoron, like "original copy".

Answer 11

In science their is nothing like soul. It is either dead or alive and if a clone is made then it will be exacitly similar to the one's clone because the word clone means 100%similar.