If someday human cloning becomes reality, and science can create identical people with identical MINDS, than what does that say about the "human soul." what would the theological implications be if we could create an identical person with an identical mind? Would you argue that they had differernt and seperate souls?
2007-03-13 14:01:53 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
they would have the "same mind"
It would be different only in that they would have different "nutures"
(as in "nature/nuture")
2007-03-13 14:09:30 · update #1
"identical people with identical MINDS"
Erm... I'm pretty sure that's NOT how it works...
2007-03-13 14:05:01 · answer #1 · answered by ZER0 C00L ••AM••VT•• 7 · 4⤊ 3⤋
Sorry, minds are also the sum of the environment. Every molecule surrounding you created "you." In math terms, at t=0 the clones are the same, but from birth different conditions make different people. Hence twins are not identical. But following that line of logic, if the conditions were the same, the twins would be to. Raising the same implications your question does. So we can conclude the probability of a soul is decreasing as our knowledge of existence is increasing.
2007-03-13 14:11:02 · answer #2 · answered by Jedi 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
A clone is just a genetic copy of another individual. So if identical twins have souls, then clones should as well, strictly speaking. If the problem is that perhaps they're produced ex utero, then that problem would exist for any creature artificially brought to term in the same manner, clone or not.
2016-03-28 22:22:32 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've wondered about that too.
I don't think they will have a spirit..they will be like animals maybe. Not truly human.
Remember..Man is a spirit..He lives in a body..he has a soul that consists of the mind, the will, and the emotions.
Theoretically.....
Cloned humans might have the "same" brain material structurally.... but the mind.and the brain are two different things.
The brain is just an organ..like a computer..
Just as the heart is an organ..its a pump...the Mind exists outside of the organ of the brain.
2007-03-13 14:23:10 · answer #4 · answered by Eartha Q 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
There are no souls, and that would just serve to prove it. BTW, human cloning and copying a human mind are two very different things. Identical twins are technically 'clones' (identical DNA), but they have separate minds. It's like having two identical computers, only with different things on each hard drive.
2007-03-13 14:08:34 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
That happens all the time. Identical twins are natural clones. They appear to share the same soul regardless of whether or not they are raised together. It will have no effect on religion.
Dream on.
2007-03-13 14:13:27 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Not even identical twins, who have identical DNA, are identical people with identical minds. If people with the exact same DNA born at the same time are separate people, why would people with the exact same DNA created at different times be any different? I won't even get into souls, as I don't believe in them.
2007-03-13 14:15:55 · answer #7 · answered by somebody 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Clones have a different environment in the womb and a different life outside. They are different people like identical twins, there can't be identical minds. The whole premise of your question is based on a falsehood.
2007-03-13 14:06:33 · answer #8 · answered by Huggles-the-wise 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
I always wondered why the beast and false prophet were the only two who got to enter the Lake of Fire alive (Revelation 19:20). What if it's because his soul isn't immortal? It would explain their hurry; as Adolf Hitler demonstrated, a degenerative disease can really motivate to action.
2007-03-13 14:22:18 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
We are so much more than our DNA sequencing and the electrical thought patterns of our brains. You can give two people the same genetic makeup, the same memories, and the same thought patterns ... but it does not mean that they will react in the same way.
I know that its not technically the same, but identical twins are a good comparison. Even though they have the same genetic patterns, they aren't the same person.
2007-03-13 14:07:32 · answer #10 · answered by fairy*chick~ 1 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I think it'd be the final nail in the coffin of religion.
A transporter accident, for example, akin to the one that created Thomas Riker and William Riker in Star Trek: The Next Generation, would be pretty conclusive.
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ZER0 C00L: Of course that's not how cloning works. Look past his poor choice of words and see what he's really asking... "If someday complete human duplication became reality..."
2007-03-13 14:05:39 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋