If a Human is cloned, does that person have a soul?

Answer 1

All identical twins have their own soul.


A twin is simply your natural clone.

Answer 2

Cloning is simply a way of starting off the process of developing a foetus, using a technique other than normal fertilisation. The body, once it starts to develop, is the same as any other embryo. Artificial insemination is often done by a scientist injecting the male sperm (or genetic material) into the ova. When a clone is made, they just inject the already combined genetic material of an existing body.If you believe in souls, there is no reason at all why the new body shouldn't have one.
I wouldn't worry too much just yet though - many people seem unaware of just how complicated the whole process is. Dolly the sheep took over 300 attempts before a viable clone was produced. The more complicated the organism, the harder it is to clone. Humans are not being cloned as the technology is nowhere near where it needs to be for this to happen without producing a lot of "failures", or unviable foetuses.

Answer 3

identical twins and clones are not the same thing. Identical twins come into existence the natural way, the way God intended it to be. Clones are made artificially. If you read psalms, and also book of job, some verses mention that God knits the baby within the womb. i am pretty sure He gives the soul to the child. I dont think He works on the artificial babies too. plus, there were people like 'Raphaims' or something like that.. after studying the hebrew texts and a bunch of dictionaries, me and one of my friends came to a conclusion there was a nationality with that name, and it was also a word to describe a person with no soul. (it is written there is no resurrection for them). just an interesting point to consider.

Answer 4

If it is the same way animals are cloned and we can talk think walk talk etc etc after being cloned then YES. Life is Life as opus said. No matter how it is created.

to me the soul is all condensed energy all focused within our shells like a battery only our energy is special within us allowing our organs when stimulated by our souls/energy to be alive and think and live.

So sure why not? If they were just standing like robots motionless and emotionless then I would say NO they do not. but if one is ever cloned and it acts like animals have, I would say yes

Answer 5

NO !!! Cloned Is not the same as being created by God Himself. It's man's Idea of creation and playing God.
A cloned person, Is manmade therefore they cannot have a soul. Because Souls came from GOD !

Answer 6

YES! If it did not have a soul, it would not be alive.

BTW, I strongly oppose cloning. In order to create a clone, scientists kill a fertilized egg and replace its DNA with the desired DNA. IOW, scientists cannoth create life.

Answer 7

Picture a set of identical twins.

Do both have souls?

Answer 8

None of us had difficulty recognizing that the destruction of human life that took place on September 11 was in fact an attack on humanity itself. It left the world horrified and resolved to unite in preventing such a tragedy from ever happening again.

More recently, we have been informed by the news media of a more subtle attack on humanity. This attack should also leave us horrified and united in our resolve to stop it. I speak of the announcement that scientists have misused the power of science in producing human life by cloning, in a way comparable to the cloning of Dolly, the sheep, several years ago.

Perhaps we are not horrified, as we should be, because of three faulty premises widely used to justify the unjustifiable.

1. There is the faulty premise that the early embryo is not a human person.

2. There is the faulty premise that human life can legitimately be and destroyed so long as there is a resulting benefit to humankind.

3. There is the faulty premise, perhaps better called the pre-tense, that such destruction is the only way to arrive at desired benefits.

Once the false premises are unmasked by the truth, horror is the only possible reaction to human cloning - horror at its potential for the dehumanization of civilization. Let's look at the truth here.

1. The truth is that human life begins at conception, whether conception takes place as it should or by cloning. From the moment of conception, we are speaking of a human person with intrinsic human dignity and rights, whether or not the human person comes full-term to birth.

2. The truth is that the end, no matter how worthy, cannot justify manufacturing vulnerable human lives for willful destruction. The cloning of human embryos for therapeutic purposes dis-criminates against the most helpless in the name of pursuing the health and well-being of others.

3. The truth is that there are other legitimate and scientifically viable means to pursue the same goals as cloning human embryos, means which respect human dignity. It has not been proven that cloning will produce any clinical benefits. Other research, using stem cells acquired by morally licit means, is already doing so with great promise for the future.

Human cloning violates fundamental ethical and moral norms. Humanity is not served when, in the pursuit of human benefits, the truth is not respected. Human cloning, whether for stem cells, for body parts or for manufacturing new people, is to be condemned unequivocally.

Answer 9

People do not have souls to begin with. So the question is self explanatory.

Answer 10

well if the person didnt have a soul wouldnt they be dead?