But how could you tell??? How do you know there is such a thing as a "soul" in the first place, apart from your religious belief?The question is not whether the clone is human but whether this human clone will be infused with a soul.
"Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart," I think He's referring to our souls, our essences, not our yet to be fully formed brains. It is a chilling thought that His Jeremiah statement may not apply to beings that He did not form in the womb but that human scientists did.
We better quit ignoring these pressing moral issues, because we can be sure that science is not going to wait for us to catch up.
This whole thread is about the simple fact that we do not know the answers, and scientific advances are far outstripping the moral frameworks erected so far upon which these advanced must be evaluated.
Science divorced from ethics and morals is a danger to be feared more than most other things today.