Does the fact that we have the power to clone,"create", mean that the soul does not exist?

Question

Im sure no one would argue that it is impossible to "create", let alone clone a soul.
So does that then prove that the soul does not exist?

Doesnt the soul transcend PHYSICAL being, if so , how can it exist in my DNA?? Is GOD a chemist?
Dont take the easy way out.

If we cant creat souls and our lives are based on the soul. Doesnt that count for something.

Answer 1

Doesn't cloning require extracting certain DNA from someone else? If so, then the God gene is present and therefore, so is the soul.

Answer 2

There are many definitions of "soul" and what a soul is, and what a soul is not. When some speak of "the soul" they are are referring to "spirit".

Ancient Wisdom teaches that the "soul" is created by and/or through the interplay of "matter" and "spirit".

Any time "matter" and "spirit" are brought together "a soul" is created -- and these are not the only "bodies" that are created when matter and spirit are joined -- but the soul is the "basic one".

Based upon the definition above, then it can be surmised that many "things" beside humans have "souls" -- in fact just about everything has a "soul" -- albeit different kinds and/or levels of "souls" -- but souls nonetheless.

Instead of thinking of (dense physical) matter, soul and spirit as being all something "different", think about it each as being a different manifestation of energy -- just at different levels.

The "danger" isn't that a "soul" won't be created -- again, by definition a soul will always be created when matter and spirit are brought together -- the danger is, is that when we conduct experiments and mix non-human DNA with human DNA we run the risk of creating an entity whereby the "soul" that is created -- or inhabited will be subjected to an most "inhumane" existence -- essentially 'torn between' two different "kingdoms" -- animal and human.

Essentially, this also creates another problem, because by blurring the line between these kingdoms also interfers or creates a "confusion" in the natural evolution within or between any given "kingdom". For instance, we have already passed through (or evolved) the animal kingdom and to have a "human" spirit (or human soul) inhabit the a body which is composed of elements of both the animal kingdom and the human kingdom would cause the "human" to DE-evolve.

It is THIS that intuitively warns us about this (mixing animal with human) as being "against" the natural order of things.

The idea is to use our knowledge, technology, etc., to move all "species" forward and not backwards along their path of evolution.

Regards,

Answer 3

Not at all.
First of all, cloning does not create life. As much as we'd like to think we've mastered it all, we're still just reproducing what nature gave us.
Second, the idea of a soul is metaphysical. It does not even enter into what it is we are making when we clone. If a soul somehow gets attached to an infant in its mother's womb, who's to say the same process can't occur to an embryo in a test tube? We don't really understand consciousness, so why assume either process only occurs with natural births?
Third, if we have souls, one would also assume the existence of God. So nothing precludes clones may have been part of His plan all along. Maybe he set souls aside for them too. Only by positing a sharp dichotomy between the world of reason and the world of faith does this even arise as a problem.

Answer 4

Once something has life, it has a soul. We can engage in sex acts and "create'' a baby--it is only when that baby becomes a living thing that it can be said to have a soul. You can clone and once that clone has a life, it has a soul.

A soul is not physical, not part of DNA. But if we go by the princple that matter (physical) and energy (soul?) can neither be created nor destroyed, then we can conclude that when a thing has life it has both energy and matter which cannot be destroyed. In conclusion, matter and energy evolves.

Now I am not saying I believe in God. I am saying that it matters not if you believe or not.

Answer 5

What those scientists do is to clone, create the physical forms. Soul is from a different dimension, the universe, which in my believe it is from the God. These two element (physical form + soul) combined will form a being, and become a being is a test from God, where the ultimate path at the end of one being after the physical form die is to return to "The House of God". But if one being fail the test along the way, the soul will come back again in different form to take the test again, and again until this being returns to "The House of God".

Answer 6

Kierkegaard's leap of faith is a very humanist way to look at this. "Proof" is an elusive little term. In order to obtain proof of anything, you have to a)have evidence to support the theory b)evidence to support the counter-theory and c) evidence that the circumstances necessary for the counter-theory to exist are not present. a)We have no evidence that human being produced through an asexual process(cloning) does not have a soul. b)we have no evidence that a human being created through sexual reproduction does have a soul... So we cannot even get to step (c) to prove anything. Believe in God or not. Don't try to prove it, you waste valuable time.

Answer 7

A soul is developed through the environment of the growing baby. It does not completely exist when it is first born (or in this case, cloned) and must mature to become its own individual pesonality.

Answer 8

If there is life, there is a soul. Simply because something is cloned it does not automatically follow it has no soul.

Answer 9

becuz we have the power to clone (create life without sexual reproduction) does that mean that there is proof that god does not exist?

Answer 10

I've never been a believer in the soul.
There's always a science to the way you feel...it's in your brain.
Yeah, atheist talking here.