Do u think Human Cloning will be practically possible in the future?Cloning wipes aways possibility of a soul?

Question

Isn't human cloning extremely hard yet possible?
Do living things have soul. If so then when a person is cloned then... the what happens to the soul?

Answer 1

Please think on this . Man cannot create life. He takes the cells in which life is manifest and does the cloning. So called soul is the power manifest in the cell.A clone is only a replica of the original's Physical form. Here also the birth time of clone will count.Basically it will be a different individual and not the original.
(cloning is not anew phenomenon.Hindu epic maha bharata speaks of the cloned babies duryodhan and his hundred brothers )

Answer 2

Human cloning is possible now.
The concept of a soul is a completely different question. If you believe humans to have a soul, then you should believe that a clone would also have a soul. Why? Because the development of the foetus is exactly the same for clones and for "normal" pregnancies. The fact that in a clone you get a baby which is identical to the cell donor, this ought not to prevent its possibility of having a soul.
When do foetuses get their soul anyway? At conception? I doubt it, as many fertilised eggs are lost with the monthly period, having not produced enough chemicals to stop the period from happening.
As I said before, this is based on the premise that souls exist. But in either case, the existence or non-existence of a soul would not affect the development of a clone in the same way that it does not affect foetuses conceived in the usual way.
I believe there was some debate about this when test-tube babies first made the news. We don't doubt the validity of these people, do we?
It'll be interesting to see what the next 20 years does to our ethics with regard to human life.

Answer 3

Human cloning is possible--always has been. People in the eighteenth century could possibly have come up with the technology to do it, they just didn't. Nothing is impossible, it just hasn't been done yet. If you clone a human, do you not clone the soul as well? If you do not, then the clone will not live and cloning will not have been accomplished--but will still be possible.

Answer 4

Human cloning is possible but not sustainable.

1. We would have to be cloned from a template due to degradation; making a copy of a copy of a copy causes malformations and defects so one template would be required and need to be preserved.

2. It is impossible to preserve a complete template of a human indefinitely as microscopic organisms and bacteria would slowly eat away at the specimen.

3. Cloning humans would eventually lead to two or more genomes (A complete DNA map) becoming equal as the amount of possible permutations stemming from a base is limitted and not infinite

Oh and in response to your second question;

Some philosophers believe that no human is born with a soul rather we earn it through viture and respect for one another. If this is tru then a human clone could have a soul

Answer 5

Human cloning is harmful to us as a species. There are more than enough humans on earth; more would make us a pestilence, subject to massive die-offs.

Also, the weaknesses in individuals would be perpetuated, causing destruction of the evolutionary cycle. Cloning can only weaken the species and harm humanity.

As to the soul, this is a religious concept. However, since both the original and any copies can coexist, pay taxes, and contribute money to religious causes, my guess is that all religions would be more than happy to declare that clones have their own souls.

Answer 6

Hmm that's got me thinking. Yes human cloning is possible - advisable maybe not. The bit about the soul - well depends upon what the soul is - where it comes from - at what stage of human development does the soul attach itself - if it exists etc.. what criteria has to be in place in order for the soul to exist. I shall think about it when I'm walking the dog.

Answer 7

mammalian cloning has been performed (not just the sheep Dolly, but with other mamals [horses, cows etc], but with many many attempts with significant problems. I seem to remember that the Roslin Institute made somewhere int he region of 100 attempts to get to clonign Dolly - probably it will be lower now but still a great deal of aborted embryos because of problems.

the soul is just an abstract manmade concept - it doens't belong anywhere. its a frame of reference for the concious mind. it comprises the memories and experiences of the individual - so a clone will not have the same memories and experiences, at least not with the current cloning process. The soul as you temr it remains with the individual. Theoretically if a brain transplant could be performed (and that is way out in the SF outfield) then mebbe those memories and experiences could be trasferred along with the brain itself.

if you believe in the TV & Films then who knows maybe there could be a cloning process int eh future whihc could clone memories and experiences but personally I doubt it, and pretty certainly not in my (or your) lifetime

Answer 8

The clone will have a soul of his/its own, because cloning is actually giving artificial birth to a person, albeit with the exact same DNA as someone else. As for mindless, soulless clones... that's in the movies.

Answer 9

I imagine it is possible, but as for the implications on one's soul, I don't know. It wpould have to be tried and tested, and f course, it would always be something for the well-off. No way such a thing could be open to the general public... Back to the soul thing... I don't see how scientists can duplicate something intangible, what with not having a specimen in the first place. I gues the future is the future, and we'll fid out when we get there.

Answer 10

Human cloning will be possible in the near future..
There is no soul issue...