Bible Question:
Clones Man will one day clone himself, " if he has'nt already" My Question is will that clone have a soul? Think about it. Preacher Man |
Bible Answer: The answer is very simple. Identical twins are for all intents and purposes clones. And you can't tell me that one has a soul and the other doesn't. As for "if he hasn't already", that's doubtful. The government has no realistic reason to do so, educational institutions don't either, and no one else has the means. Besides most of the 50 states have legislation of some kind prohibiting full human cloning. Some even go so far as to prohibit organ cloning as I recall. Honestly, I personally have no real moral or ethical problems with cloning. I just fail to see how anything other than organ cloning could have any possible legitimate use. Also, please note that science doesn't currently have any way to accelerate the aging of a clone. So any clone that is created will have to go through childhood. So there won't really be any of this silly situations that people keep coming up with like "My clone assasinated the president and I got framed." And stuff like people saw in The Sixth Day is so far out that you should be smacking yourself if you belived any of it. However, I totally agree with There - Cloning is not what God intended. The real dilema is that that clone will be raised differently from everyone around him. It is doubtful that a clone would be treated as human because of our prejudices. Beyond that, he/she wouldn't be likely to be a part of anything that could be termed a functional godly family unit. That presents a much more dangerous situation than anything that paranoid people can come up with. That in and of itself is a good enough reason to never fully clone a human. |