2006-07-05 13:36:17 · 9 answers · asked by Dragonpack 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
u suck!!!! germany doesnt
2006-07-05 13:53:55 · answer #1 · answered by nasha 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
What exactly do you think a soul is? What properties does it have? What part of 'you' resides in the soul?
If it's postulated that consciousness, or awareness, or sense of self resides in the soul, it's difficult to see how this can be reconciled with the complete oblivion which accompanies general anaesthesia. How could a straightforward chemical, injected into the bloodstream, anaesthetise a soul so that it effectively ceases to exist during this time? If consciousness, in the form of a soul, were some kind of supernatural faculty, it would seem implausible that it could be completely disabled by a chemical.
How about some of the other things which we regard as essential parts of what makes a person what they are? How about love, compassion, reason, empathy, memory, conscious thought, character, 'spirituality' and so on? Well, there is really no plausible doubt that all these things are properties of the physical brain. We can alter all of these properties very simply with alcohol or other drugs, and observe how they change in people who have suffered significant brain damage - Previously placid people become uncontrollably violent, intelligent people become imbeciles, and so on. Stimulate the brain artificially, and the subject reports corresponding mental activity, e.g. 'religious experiences'. We can see from brain research that all these things - thought, emotion, sensation, character traits and so on - are correlated with activity in the brain, and some things can be identified with specific areas of the brain.
So, if all these faculties and characteristics of what we regard as the 'person' reside in the physical brain, as seems to be undeniably the case, and they all cease when the person dies, then what is left to be attributed to a 'soul'? As far as I can ascertain: Nothing. If there is no part of us that can continue after death, then there is no 'afterlife'... and if there is no afterlife, then most of religion is null and void, and neither a clone nor its original can have a soul.
2006-07-05 20:53:21 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A clone is just a twin, so yes clones have souls.
2006-07-05 20:50:36 · answer #3 · answered by Melissa 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a human gets its soul at conception when it becomes a zygote so a clone would have to go through the process of conception so it would have a soul.
2006-07-05 20:44:00 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
How would you know if they did or didn't? How do you detect a soul? How do you know YOU have a soul? The concept of a soul requires faith and cannot be empirically proven. Your question can't be answered.
2006-07-05 20:40:19 · answer #5 · answered by bazzmc 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no if you believe in evolution
cant answer for no one else
this should be almost as good as a mind game
if man created man then how could god have created man
seeking a soul can be a big mind game,but to follows ones mind,a mind that can not be made up,a mind that can be made to believe anything,a mind that can be brain washed,a mind that can go crazy,
just don't mind me,just another mouthy voice
2006-07-05 20:49:21 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They each get half a soul, like twins.
2006-07-05 20:50:43 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is a question for your God...not Yahoo Answers. Unless Yahoo Answers is your God.
2006-07-05 21:03:48 · answer #8 · answered by zenkitty27 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, because the Pope said they would...
2006-07-05 20:51:15 · answer #9 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋