How many of you think that a Clone of a human, would have a soul?

Question

A human is made up of spirit ,soul and body, but what about a clone. Tell me what you think.

spirit is made up of the conscience,
soul is made up of mind, will, emotions.

Only humans have souls

Now this thing is going to be man made.

Every creation has a purpose, now would this thing.

Answer 1

I've actually thought of this before and it is a very hard question. I don't believe in cloning but it would be hard to believe that a clone doesn't have a soul if they walk, talk, and have feeling like you and I. So I really do not know!

Answer 2

If you're going by a theological definition, the "soul" is what makes us capable of experiencing consciousness, emotions, etc. (or so I'm told). So if the clone ended up with normal human function, I find it difficult to believe religious people would claim it was "soulless." If it could function just fine without a "soul" then what need would the rest of us have for them? A soulless clone would mean that all the things attributed to the soul really do happen because of the brain, and the brain alone.
Of course, if a clone came out a psychopathic warped version of human being, theists might have more of a case.
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Anyway, a clone would be no different that an identical twin. There are few people who think only one twin has a soul and the other does not. In twins, only one embryo is conceived and then splits into two. So if "ensoulment" occurs at conception, one of the twins should be soulless, or else they'd have split souls.

Answer 3

Yes, of course it would. It is a living, breathing creation of God, even if it is a clone...rather along the lines of identical twins. The thing is, do we have the right to play God? I say, no, this is just wrong on so many levels..will they make a clone to save your life, or give you an arm or leg, you might have lost...maybe you need a liver....will they be used as just spare parts, so some one can make money off them....you know they would if it were possible to clone a human...

Answer 4

I've been wondering about that. Since the soul is really the conscience and the conscience is God-given, I don't think a clone would have a soul. But to not have a soul would make the individual a psychopath. So I'm not convinced either way.

-MM

Answer 5

its easy to make a soul, destroy one and allot of other stuff, yes it will have a soul, a soul is just energy created by the body or something like that, i can explain it allot better but its not on my mind right now so, but if you ask i can explain it more later.

i theorized of a devise that can capture souls, hold on

ok the box,

1st of many theories

the braine produces electricity, when someone gets knocked out the electricity is distorted and the soul or spirit or whatever is temporaraly stoped or leaves, when you go to sleep the brain starts to produce different types of brain waves or something, different stages of sleep and the electric currernt is changed or something,- cousing dreams, meditation also does something,- more than just calm the mind,- also look up OBEs or astral projection, but anyways i read somewhere that in astral projection you can get stuck on power lines- yes that sounds wierd- ill try to find the website that explains that,
ok when someone dies there brain stops working.
and i guess the soul/spirit goes out.


but anyways, my box

using an electrified organic container of some sort,

have it over when someone dies before they die, over there head, and turned on. when they die, there soul should leave
but when it does, it should be traped in that box.

theres more to it than that,

and i have allot more theories but ive got to go, and i dont know if you even want to hear them so. yeah

Answer 6

Good questionO.o I think it might, it would still have a brain and be able to produce emotions and things

Actually it probably would, it's still being born only in a diffrent way

people are man made if you want to look at it that way, its the same thing, it just has the same dna but you still need a sperm and an egg, i think conciousness is the soul and the spirtit, i think their the same thing

Answer 7

I don't know if I believe in the soul.

That being said, though, I think you would get a soul if you cloned someone.

After all, if you split a fertilized embryo, and both make it to gestation, then you'd have two souls, right?

And if you just fertilize an egg, you also would create a soul, right?

Assuming we really have souls.

Answer 8

Of course not... since they are born from an un-godly process, they don't have souls... which means that they aren't human. That presents some interesting legal problems. I'm aware of one scientist who had cloned himself... and being a souless monstrocity, the clone had no moral restraint... sort of like an atheist. So, be was constantly cursing and blaspheming. The scientist finally got sick of it, and he pushed the clone from a 12th story hotel balcony, in Ft. Lauderdale.... it fell to its death.

The police were called, of course... but since the clone wasn't human, they couldn't arrest the scientist for murder... but they didn't feel that they could just let him go, either. So... they charged him with 'making an obscene clonefall'.
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Answer 9

Yes. But I think spirit and soul are the same thing...
What's with the comma between "human" and "would" in the question line?

Answer 10

If you believe that the soul is immortal and the body is a vessel, then there's no reason a clone wouldn't have a soul, as there's nothing particularly special about how the vessel was created.