If a person if part chimpanzee and part human, does it have a soul? For instance when a creature is created with part human and part chimpanzee DNA, is it still a human? What should be done about it?
2007-01-14 06:27:54 · 16 answers · asked by Frank L. Butterscotch 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
If you believe in the concept of a soul, the question becomes who has them? all animals?
Most pet owners would claim their beloved pets have souls. I certainly do no see why, if a soul exists, chimpanzees wouldn't have one.
so why not? and to your final question, I say do nothing.
2007-01-14 06:34:57 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If your question is in Judeo-Christian perspective:
No, the human-chimpanzee does not have a soul, it is an abomination in the Eye of God. What has it instead? Well, that would be like asking wheter demons have a soul, it is not for man to know these sort of things.
If your question is in the broader spiritual perspective:
Yes
......but, I think there must be certain prerequisites in order for a soul to attach itself to a body. You should first determine: "What has a soul?" and if animals do not, then determine: "Is this creature an animal?"
What the prerequisites are we can only speculate:
- Some sort of an electronic field (already present in every brain).
- Maybe it has to be reincarnated from the same species (if so, then this creature wouldn't have a soul or it would be the first).
- It must be conscious of itself and conscious that it is conscious.
- It must be granted by a Higher Power.
- A soul must choose to inhabit this specific creature.
Difficult question, I wouldn't take any answer for true immediatly.
2007-01-21 13:24:06 · answer #2 · answered by DutchDave 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Show me a true example of the half human-chimpanzee and I will tell you. But until that is a reality, there is no need to try to figure out what this side show would be and contain. Do you actually have a specimen like what you describe? Until we actually see the speciman, no questions can be answered. The DNA of a monkey is some what like the DNA of a human. But it is not a match. Reproduction can not be done, with the two species, unless it has a DNA of the same. The monkey does not have the same DNA as a human.
2007-01-14 06:39:23 · answer #3 · answered by Norskeyenta 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No...chimpanzee is a soul.
The original-language terms (Heb., ne′phesh [?פנ]; Gr., psy‧khe′ [ψυχή]) as used in the Scriptures show “soul” to be a person, an animal, or the life that a person or an animal enjoys.
The connotations that the English “soul” commonly carries in the minds of most persons are not in agreement with the meaning of the Hebrew and Greek words as used by the inspired Bible writers. This fact has steadily gained wider acknowledgment. Back in 1897, in the Journal of Biblical Literature (Vol. XVI, p. 30), Professor C. A. Briggs, as a result of detailed analysis of the use of ne′phesh, observed: “Soul in English usage at the present time conveys usually a very different meaning from שפנ [ne′phesh] in Hebrew, and it is easy for the incautious reader to misinterpret.”
More recently, when The Jewish Publication Society of America issued a new translation of the Torah, or first five books of the Bible, the editor-in-chief, H. M. Orlinsky of Hebrew Union College, stated that the word “soul” had been virtually eliminated from this translation because, “the Hebrew word in question here is ‘Nefesh.’” He added: “Other translators have interpreted it to mean ‘soul,’ which is completely inaccurate. The Bible does not say we have a soul. ‘Nefesh’ is the person himself, his need for food, the very blood in his veins, his being.”—The New York Times, October 12, 1962.
2007-01-14 06:32:18 · answer #4 · answered by papa G 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Show me a human-chimpanzee, and I'll show you a pink unicorn. Just because a man has a pig valve in his heart doesn't mean that he is a pig-man. If you can find a hybrid human-chimpanzee created from a human egg and a chimp sperm (for example), then I have a bridge to sell you.
2007-01-14 06:33:58 · answer #5 · answered by NONAME 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The existence of a soul is hypothetical and human/chimpanzee hybrids don't exist so it's difficult to give you an answer.
2007-01-14 06:32:17 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
inventive delusion. extra advantageous than generic delusion. yet to respond to your question - specific you may make a human-chimpanzee hybrid, notwithstanding not the customary way. yet all of those pesky retards with their "ethics" and so on shop putting an excellent stick interior the wheel. And in case you could shop a soul, then specific you could shop a chimpmans soul.
2016-10-07 03:43:54 · answer #7 · answered by alia 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Animals are a type of souls different than human souls-Your dreaming about a Hy-bred species of man and monkey.
2007-01-14 06:38:02 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A person is not a part of any animal, and a chimp is an animal. Only humans have souls.
2007-01-14 06:34:56 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Chimp soul
2007-01-14 06:33:36 · answer #10 · answered by FAUUFDDaa 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋