Does a clone have a soul?
155369
Yes, It is the life that is important. More important than how that life came to be.
1167269
:) Okay. From a strictly scientific standpoint. What does your brain operate on? Electrical energy. We have a scientific law which states; Energy can neither be created, nor destroyed. It can only be altered in form. Okay, the energy in our brains cannot be destroyed, upon the death of our physical bodies. Then what happens to it??? I think there's your Ghosts. Who we are changes form, but is not destroyed. We still exist. I guess maybe it's a science based definition of a soul?
535018
As far as anyone can tell, there is no such thing as a soul.  When you die, you cease to exist.  End of story.\n\nADDENDUM:  To anyone who answers this question from the perspective that souls exist, you ought to justify your assertions with verifiable evidence or valid argument, not just make unsupported claims, otherwise your response is essentially worthless.  Oh, and quoting from the Bible or the Qur'an constitutes neither evidence nor argument...  :-)\n\nIt is a fundamental principle of rational thought that if you claim something exists, and you want people to believe you, then the onus is on you to provide argument or evidence to support your claim, not on other people to refute it.  The default position is non-belief, in other words.
501672
Soul enters Body at moment of conception.\nSoul is immortal and obviously body lays down and turns back to dust.\nI believe We are Spiritual Beings(SOUL-part of the Great IAM,GOD) in a Physical(BODY).  It seems to me most people figure it the other way around--physical beings, trying to SOMEHOW become Spiritual Beings.  maybe they will catch on once the meet their maker.
767329
We won't know unless someone is cloned.  Even then, how would we know?\n\nThe indicator of a soul is a conscience and knowledge of right and wrong.  For example, animals don't have this ability so they don't have souls.\n\nWould the cloned person have this capability?  We can only observe if and when it happens.  Hopefully it doesn't.
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A human clone, if succesful, is just a twin of the original person (but younger).  That's seems morally legitimate.  But today the success rate would be very low; some of the failures would be horrible birth defects.  So it would be unethical to attempt cloning a human today.  Eventually, if it could be done reliably, it would be ethical (but getting there from here seems awfully difficult).
854017
the soul is immortal.the body dies but the soul either goes to the heavenly abode or acquire another body(judged according to your karma).
95970
Not.\n\nI doubt one could ever have the same relationship with the cloned being as you did with the original. What if the relationship sucked and totally taints the memory of the original? What if the original had a sucky life and the cloned is condemned to it all over again? And the fear and grief of eventually losing that person all over again, just isn’t worth it. \n\nSome things are best as originals.
1001973
No one really knows about re-incarnation.  There are alot of people out there who look quite a bit alike yet thre is no relation.\n\nHere is what I believe:  \nWe are made of energy (fact).  When we die, that energy remains (fact).  So who is to say it DOESN'T go from your body to another's?  For all you know you can be a re-incarnated person and you wouldn't know it.  I mean...you won't remember anything of your previous life...it isn't the memory that passes along..it is your energy.  You could be the same energy of someone else.  \nEnergy cannot be created nor destroyed.  FACT.\n\nBelieve what you want...just have your faith.
1170418
God \n\nbut\n\nthe humans cloned it
565450
No. I know there is a God.\n\nYou have a physical machine called a body that is able to use its mind to ponder the question, relay visual information from a physical world of comparable low-tech computers through the optic nerve, into the brain, with the mind to comprehend the ramifications, then transfer that thought process to an incredibly complex systems of nerves, tendons, and touch to the fingers to type the letters. This then communicates a question of the soul. The soul is something that science cannot a.) explain and b.) create. It can only mimic with unsatisfactory results. That soul is concerned for the existence of an eternal destiny beyond time and space--that there is a world beyond the physical world we see in the here and now. You are an incredible creation who has been given the free will choice to believe, or not believe. A being that can love, write poetry, paint or play works of incredible complexity and beauty. To smell, and taste, enjoy. So, like you, I set out on a path to find my Creator. It is obvious that He exists, but is He personal or an impersonal force? My answer came through the study of prophecy in the Bible. Like the DNA strand and life itself, it was hard to dispute the evidence. Now with the realization of the truth of the Bible, God made it clear that He was not only a personal God, but One who wanted to know ME, and that He knew everything about me--even the number of every hair on my head.
236356
Yes, even a cloned being has a heart, blood, nerves, brain, feelings, emotions, capabilities, etc. He should have the right to live no matter how he was brought into being.
509667
I would not want cloning after I die for the simple reason that there is only one of me. However for a clone to be me it would have to have my memories, my talents, my thoughts, etc. ,the clone would look like me but have a completely different life than I, so if they could take out the weaknesses from my genes and make a clone that doesn't have any major health problems I would consider letting them clone me after I die.
456073
If I was to clone myself, I would do it for different reasons. There is no way that I would put my life over someone else's...at least that is how I think now...I do think it would be cool to have another one of me...My clone would have my twisted mind just with maybe some different life experiences. I think that it would be pretty cool to philosophize with my differently same self. I think that a person could really learn a lot about themselves from such an experience. Just think of what you would be about if you lived in a third world country, or lived life as a king, or you had different parents, or you eat different food, smelled different things, knew different people, or so on...I think that the answer is that there is no real knowing what you would really be about...I think that there is a lot to be said about what you could learn. They say that some people that get amnesia act completely different then before it, and with no sign of any real brain trauma...by that I mean that they are actually the same person, genes and all, just missing some of the life experiences that made them the way they were...this would go to prove that a person is completely capable of change as long as they understand that their mind is their own and all they need to do is control how it "looks" or uses its stimulus...Meaning that we are really not predisposed to be anything and all we need to do is see things the way we need to see things to become what we want to be...
647985
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.
226661
clone or twin or whatever.. it'll be inscest
862764
Yes. Plants and animals have a soul. Why would humans be the only ones with a soul.\n\nGuess vegetarians are also commiting murder! \n"SAVE THE PLANTS"