If a human was cloned...would the clone have a "Soul"?
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Every dust particle is alive and carries the breath and LOVE of GOD.\nEarth is not without SOUL .You acquire your identity even through normal reproducion because of this planet's matter. Every electron has a soul of ots own.\nIt conveys that we all make you , you do not make us.We LOVE GOD but you as humans LOVE only images of Gods so imagined and so created by men.\na clone will recieve more concentrated form of love from the Mother like a God.\nIt will prove that GOD resides in the heart and soul of a mother and HER LOVE for HER creation.\nALL RELIGIONS WILL BE PROVED WRONG WHICH IS URGENT REQUIREMENT FOR SURVIVAL OF MANKIND AS ONE SPECIE. mraju692yahoo.com
226661
clone or twin or whatever.. it'll be inscest
602478
Sort of. Science only disproves. So if we can disprove everything that would say that the body doesn't have a soul, then you've got proof.
325903
depends on what you consider a long time.  there are reports of Near Death Experiences of those who had been dead for hours and then were revived automatically, and they did revive by their soul returning to the body.  Now months or years down the road, not likely, but I wouldn't say impossible.
569144
There is no scientific evidence that souls exist. The conservation of energy doesn't dictate what form the energy takes. The heat of decay of a body is sufficient to satisfy that law.
368422
I would have certain parts of me cloned, if I needed new ones, e.g. liver, kidney etc.
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An entire human is cloned, but if you're asking if the brain will be the same in terms of the knowledge that it holds the answer is no.  Cloning makes a copy of genetics--the instructions that are stored as to how to make us physically.  The information our brains hold is all a matter of experiences encountered.  \nThis is a question of nature vs. nurture.  Our genetics do have implications as to how we think, but the way we are brought up, down to very minute details form who we are, and because it's very hard to mimic the same exact conditions that a person had growing up, it would be next to impossible to clone somebody who would think exactly like the original person.
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God \n\nbut\n\nthe humans cloned it
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I believe there is a soul.  "Personality" could be used in place of "soul". \n\nI think the soul is a cumulation of a lifetime's worth of experiences, thoughts, learned behaviors, hard lessons learned, acquired knowledge, and memories.
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Disadvantages: People will deem clones to have no souls and use them in immoral ways.\n\nAdvantages: None.\n\nI can see no benefit to the actual cloning of a human being. The benefit comes from the knowledge gained from cloning. Once we have the ability to clone a human being, we can specialize in cloning just the parts that we need.\n\nImagine a person with lungs and a heart damaged from disease or an accident. Doctors can clone just the heart and lungs from the patient's own DNA and transplant them. No waiting for donors and no organ rejection.\n\nHow about cloning gallons of untainted blood as needed? No more need for donors, storage, or disease testing. Even rare blood types can be cloned as needed.
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We need to distinguish between Mind and Soul.  The mind is indeed a function of the brain, and the Soul is mostly indistinguishable from it while the brain is functioning.  We therefore leave open the question of whether the Soul is something quite apart, which can exist without the physical "housing" of the brain.  I personally think it is something different, and does exist apart from any physical structure, but my reasons are all spiritual/religious, and not in the least scientific.  The most scientific analogy is an idea or a concept, perhaps an archetype.  They clearly exist outside of any physical structure, and I believe the soul does, too.  My real question is whether it is an individual soul, and therefore there are billions of them, or whether we share souls at a higher dimension/level than we normally perceive.  The jury is still out on that one.
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sure, but that doesn't mean that the child is going to be exactly me.  We are formed by our environments, if I get a lot of sun that may mean that I am going to have a lot of moles and freckles, but my clone wouldn't.  The clone also would probably eat a lot better than I did when I was little, so they would develop better than I did, meaning that they could end up taller, fatter, bustier, and all that.  \nI am also unique by the childhood that I have, many of my ideas and mental characteristics were formed due to my upbringing but my clone would not have the same upbringing, so they may be much smarter or dumber than I or they may be republican, I don't know.
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I think he means clone.\n\nIt would be murder.\n\nJust because you have the same genetic code (as does an identical twin) doesn't mean you're the same person.
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I guess that is a question of faith, there is no way to prove anyone has a soul,but if you believe in God, I would say no, because God gives a baby a soul when they are conceived in their mother's womb. To clone someone is not God's doing but man's. God would not give a soul to something he didn't create. Man making clones is like them trying to eliminate the need for God.
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The human Soul is the result of the Spirit entity dwells in the human corporeal body. The spirit being shall lives in the corporeal body only when there is continuance of the existence of chemical compound reactions in the body, such as availability of energy, radiation, blood flows, etc.\n\nNormally after a person is proclaim to be death, its internal organ or brain still carry some activity but at very minimal level, thus there is some sort of chemical compound activity such as heat dissipated from the body and temperature drops down, then some muscles become tense.
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Some religious traditions see only a human as having a soul.  Others see animals (being completely innocent and unfallen) as also having souls. Animistic religions see EVERYTHING as having a soul, from humans to rocks.\n\nThe answer to this question totally depends upon your definition of the word Soul.  Some define soul as some kind of invisible force moving and propelling the body that exits us upon death.  Others define soul as being related to the function of breathing.  Others define soul as being an interplay between kinetic and potential energy.\n\nNobody really knows about any of these things.  It's all just speculation.  \n\nMy personal belief, as of this minute, is that sentience is really the indicator for spirit.  This can be interpreted very broadly to say that phototropism in plants is a sign of sentience.  I can live with that.  \n\nDoes this mean that the soul lives on beyond the body?  Absolutely not.  Once dead, that which was sentient is gone.  Forever.
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Since souls have no mass or substance, they can't be restrained by what we perceive as an encasement.  Only something in the spiritual realm can effectively "trap" a soul.