What's your opinion concerning the matter of cloning and how it affects religion? Do "clones" have souls? Is it a sin for a human being to create life through unnatural means? What do you think?
2007-01-16 12:49:40 · 18 answers · asked by Dark 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I think that if you are creating a clone army it's immoral but if you're harvesting stem cells it isn't
2007-01-16 12:52:42 · answer #1 · answered by Kevin 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
cloning should be left in the hands of sci-fi writers. it's more of a question of "should we really be playing God?". all living things have souls. cloning isn't unnatural - yeast does it naturally. however, if we copy ourselves do we have the right to tell the clone it can't. and besides, in the case of cloning a loved one to keep them with you, the clone would only be biologically the same. because we change as we grow older, how we would raise the original would not be the same as raising the clone. I don't think we can clone personalities. and isn't that what makes us all unique? as for religion - I believe that is in the belief of the believer.
2007-01-24 05:26:36 · answer #2 · answered by taowiccan1 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No religions should ever be cloned!
The only way to know for sure is to clone someone and see if they have a soul! Better make sure that the person you clone has a soul to begin with!!
I love all the people who think they know what God thinks on this issue. There is absolutely no references to cloning in the bible as far as I know! As long as people are speaking for god, I think God would say, "Go for it"!!!
Gregory
2007-01-16 13:01:19 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cloning for animal has happened but cloning for human I think is against with Allah as the greatest creator.Man can proposes it but
God will dispose it.
Eiinstein told that science without religion is blind so scientist should learn whether it is ethic and not blind for human cloning .
But if God is in His willingness anything will be exist or happened and if is occurred the cloning human has soul exactly.
2007-01-16 13:11:09 · answer #4 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the position in the Bible, Koran, Torah, e book of Mormon, Tom and Katie's area cult e book, the Iliad, the Odyssey, the e book 4 Noble Truths, or what ever whacked out non secular dogmatic nonsence does it aspect out human cloning or if the clone may have a soul. No non secular doctrine says the soul comes from organic procreation. If someone is made by procreation or by cloning i'm positive an all useful god might want to confirm a thanks to grant it a soul.
2016-11-24 22:11:19 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes it is a sin to clone, because God should be the only one to make life.
2007-01-24 02:50:36 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
all this problem is about moral codes. science has become in itself a powerful religion. poeple were once guided by god's light but now by their own intelligence. cloning just forms part of science and if it benefits to the humans why not start to clone.there nothing wrong in it. if man has the power why not.all hese ideas against cloning is because we have been taught that god is the only creator and science is his destructor. but it is all the contrary
2007-01-16 20:15:09 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Since I believe the "soul" or "spirit" is the energy that makes each individual unique, I believe that beings created through "unnatural" means also have souls, be it invitro, cloning, etc, because they are unique individuals. Even identical twins, though they share the same DNA, are unique individuals, because their spirits aren't the same.
2007-01-16 13:00:23 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Clones do not have souls. It is quite wrong to experiment cloning on man.
Flesh relates only to the body. Spiritual lives develop based on parental love and family.
2007-01-16 13:02:11 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
I am uncertain where the source of the soul lies, but I think a human who was cloned would be just as human as anyone else.
As with so much else, it is no the technology but its potential uses that are troublesome.
(The story of the woman who paid thousands of dollars to clone her dead cat troubled me -- thousands of unwanted animals being euthanized and she spends her money on *that*?)
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2007-01-16 12:55:59 · answer #10 · answered by Chickyn in a Handbasket 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is this idea that "souls" exist and we should not create something that 'god' didn't put one of these souls into.
They are already cloning food.
2007-01-16 12:55:30 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋