Where is the soul of a person? What happens to the soul when the body dies?
Experiences don't define a person. Obviously a good environment that nurtures the body for proper development is necessary. But if you reconstruct a person using genetic information then you are recreating the exact same person. The soul arises from the physical being created from the genetic information. If the person dies, the soul dies as well.
What about Identical twins who share exact genes?
They are the same person.
How can we test this idea of the soul arising from the body? What is a valid scientific approach? How can we test this idea by observing the behavior of cloned insects or animals?
In the news:
-- Christie Ewen
Vatican Warns Against Cloning (NY TIMES 1997)
ReplyDeleteHuman cloning would not lead to identical souls because only God can create a soul, a panel set up by Pope John Paul II has concluded. The Pontifical Academy of Life said the spiritual soul, ''the constitutive kernel'' of every human created by God, cannot be produced through cloning. (AP)
http://www.nytimes.com/1997/06/25/nyregion/news-summary-822930.html?scp=9&sq=pope%20cloning%20soul&st=cse
I discovered late in life there was no Santa Claus. I was 9 years old when my BFF shocked beyond disbelief broke the news to me.
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