Posted on 12/31/2002 4:53:27 PM PST by cincinnati65
As the possibility of creating a human clone appears to be closing on reality, there are a number of questions that come to mind, particularly when reconciling with my Christian beliefs. For instance, if a human clone is created, will a soul inhabit the body? If so, what soul? If a clone is created that is a living, breathing duplicate of a human, what does this say about my belief that it is God that provides the immortal soul within humans?
Other than your faith, how do you know that a soul actually exists? What evidence is there?
Actually, the biggest problem I have with cloning is the amount of embryos that must be destroyed doing research and even during the actual cloning process.
Another problem I have with not so much the cloning itself, the misnomer that cloning is creating new life without God's help. Not quite. You still need an already created egg and sperm, which God created in the first place. Try creating a man from the dust of the ground, now then you would have something.
Cloning advocates still have a lot of issues they fail to address.
A good site: http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/QA.asp
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