Does each clone has its soul?

Question

Can souls be cloned ?

Answer 1

This is a very interesting theological question, and I wish we had someone of a bishop-cardinal-pope status answering it here with good references to holy books.
Of cause, for people who do not believe in souls it makes no sense. However, from the people who do believe in their existence, I have heard different views. First of all, no one ever suggested that souls could be cloned. In most religions they are either eternal or created only by a deity.
According to many, a soul inhabits a body after fertilization. This has become a huge public policy issue used to justify the ban on abortions and experimentation on early embryos. Obviously, whoever established this concept was not aware of how identical twins appear: they come from the same fertilized egg, but are presumed to have separate souls.
Some religious groups believe that souls can inhabit the body at later embryonic stages, which takes care of the twin conundrum, while allowing early stage abortions and experiments with fertilized eggs. Still, the number of souls in conjoined twins is not clearly undefined, since one of the twins may be present only as an extra organ. Does a rudimentary head attached to someone’s shoulder have its own soul?
In case of a clone, there is no fertilization step, although, following the most common technique, the nucleus is moved to the cytoplasm of another cell, which may have its own and distinct mitochondrial DNA. Therefore, fertilization-based soul movement is out of question: in this view clones have no soul. The embryonic-stage based theory would still hold, since the clone goes through the normal developmental stages.
Finally, I have heard an explanation that the All-mighty and All-knowing puts as many souls into a fertilized egg as will be needed in the future. E.g. the egg that will become twins gets two. This creates some difficulty for embryonic stem cell clones: thousands could be made from one. It also, in a sense, absolves experimentation on early embryos: the God surely knew that they are not meant to develop, so he, probably, put no souls inside.
Soul-denying atheists have it easy, don’t they?

Answer 2

A clone is biologically the same as an Identical twin. Even the best clones are not perfect reproductions of the exact same DNA. There is always some variance. Each clone has its own soul just like anybody else. The donor still retains his original soul. There are many theories about when soul-endowment takes place. However, the act of cloning bears no weight on the matter.

Answer 3

A clone is an individual, just as much of an organism as the nucleus donor was. A separate animal.

If there is such a thing as a soul, and if a human were cloned, the clone would have its own soul.

Right now we mostly clone plants.

Answer 4

I dont see why not, it's just a genetic replica of something that already exists much like a twin and even if its physically identical I am sure it thinks, acts and feels independent of the original animal.

Souls cant be cloned, cloning is a biological /genetic process. Since souls are neither biological or genetic where would you get hold of information to clone them?

Answer 5

What happen in cloning? u get Female ova that contain half
D.N.A and u removed The nucleus and after that u get A cell (somatic ) that contain all D.N.A of human take nucleus than u inter it into the ova than u shake it a Little to make it active than u inter it into a female to grow normaly as it a normal pergancey so it have own soul not cloned beacaus the clond thing here is D.N.A only .

Answer 6

A clone is simply your identical twin. Of course twins have their own soul.

Answer 7

Yes, identical twins are clones, and they both have souls.

Answer 8

We can sit and guess all we want, but it won't resolve a thing.
There is only 1 way to find out and that is to monitor a human clone.