Will Human Clones Have A Soul?

Human clones will become a reality one day. Will these beings have a soul?

[plazul]

As someone prone to believing in conpiracies I suspect that human clones are already a reality. If they exist, they are either infants or very young. In another post I discussed advances in artificial brain enhancement so it's possible that somebody could be experimenting with clones in that area or other areas of human performance. Or they could be raising brain dead clones as subjects for a variety of medical experiments and even for organ harvesting.

If human beings have a soul it might be a metaphysical phenomenon resulting from brain chemistry. Instead of being immortal the soul may also die with the body or it might linger forever like a radio wave passing through the universe.

Clones probably share the human condition but if they're isolated or comatose and have no human experience to feed the soul they might be spiritually dead.

[burntandbleeding]

I believe a soul is who you are, spiritually, not chemically. I believe that even if a person was cloned a million times, each clone would still be an individual as far as how they thought and acted. I believe that the longer the clones were alive, the more of "individuals" they would become due to the ever-increasing number of variables in each of their lives. I think that everyone can agree that the things that happen to us over the course of our lives mold who we are. As children, we are more prone to view the world as we are told to, due to our lack of experience. As we grow and develop, we change, we begin to seperate ourselves from the structure that ruled our childhood. We gain more and more individuality as we gain more and more personal insite into our world. Individuality is the foundation of our souls, it's who we are, what we think and believe. Since a perfect clone would be no different than a natural-born human, I think they would be the same way. So yes, I believe that clones will have souls.

[jwolf7722]

i think human cloning is a horrible idea. the last thing we need is more people in this world.

[capt_buzzard]

Every living thing....it...has a Spirt/Soul.

[Okie]

Originally Posted by Chris

Human clones will become a reality one day. Will these beings have a soul?

I thought King George outlawed human cloning. But if in fact cloning does happen then yes, of course they will have a soul. If they are in fact clones they will be exactly the same. If one were to do bodily harm to a clone they should have to pay the same price as one does now for battery or murder. The brain is the soul. If it has a brain it has a soul.
The movie Total Recall used the plot that one could just go to a "travel agent" and have memories implanted in ones brain for a vacation any place they wanted and they would feel the same as if they had actually gone there but without spending the time and money and effort to really go there. I think it could happen.

[Accountable]

Originally Posted by burntandbleeding

I believe a soul is who you are, spiritually, not chemically. I believe that even if a person was cloned a million times, each clone would still be an individual as far as how they thought and acted. I believe that the longer the clones were alive, the more of "individuals" they would become due to the ever-increasing number of variables in each of their lives. I think that everyone can agree that the things that happen to us over the course of our lives mold who we are. As children, we are more prone to view the world as we are told to, due to our lack of experience. As we grow and develop, we change, we begin to seperate ourselves from the structure that ruled our childhood. We gain more and more individuality as we gain more and more personal insite into our world. Individuality is the foundation of our souls, it's who we are, what we think and believe. Since a perfect clone would be no different than a natural-born human, I think they would be the same way. So yes, I believe that clones will have souls.

OMG. Mark the calendar. I agree with B&B!

[Okie]

Originally Posted by jwolf7722

i think human cloning is a horrible idea. the last thing we need is more people in this world.

Then why is it that our government here is pushing marriage so much. and trying to stop marriages that cannot produce children as in gay marriage. and why does our government try to stop birth control pills and abortion and condoms. Bush went to Africa and told them not to use condoms. a place where AIDs is rampant. He lives in a dream world if he thinks he can tell young kids with raging hormones to just say no to sex.

[SOJOURNER]

The Bible teaches that a person is characterized as a "living being" (Gen 2:7) with a transcendent component called spirit or soul. The spirit is the part that lives on after the body dies. Also according to the Bible, the body without the spirit is dead (James 2:26). It is therefore reasonable that once we are physically alive we are also a living soul.

Would a clone, then, have a soul? The answer is yes. Unquestionably, a child created by any means, whether natural or artificial, is still completely human. For example, would anyone hold that a child conceived by in vitro fertilization is deprived of a soul?

[Accountable]

Originally Posted by Okie

Then why is it that our government here is pushing marriage so much. and trying to stop marriages that cannot produce children as in gay marriage. and why does our government try to stop birth control pills and abortion and condoms. Bush went to Africa and told them not to use condoms. a place where AIDs is rampant. He lives in a dream world if he thinks he can tell young kids with raging hormones to just say no to sex.

That's dispicable! I searched quickly but couldn't find it. Where'd you find it? I mean it's one thing to be against infanticide, but to encourage them to not use condoms?!?

But I don't want to go off half-cocked & unarmed, so if you could give me the link, I'd really appreciate it.