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To: jttmab who wrote (213786)	1/20/2007 9:51:59 PM
From: neolib	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I wonder if a human clone will have a soul? It is already a problem for those who think that 1) conception marks the start of a human being, and 2) there is such a thing as the soul which all humans have. Monozygote multiples (like identical twins) separate up to a week+ (IIRC) after conception, i.e. it is a single entity until the split. Does the soul also split? Or does the being not have a soul until safely past that critical time. Note that if the division comes to late, you get progressively worse conjoined individuals (something like 10-15 days I think). There are intermediate problems like fused placenta and twin blood sharing that happens for the intermediate times. Are their souls conjoined? Is it a sliding scale, just like the range of physical bodies? Does one body & 2 heads equal one or two souls? What if the brains are progressively fused? I like to know the boundary conditions. I have not found any scholarly religious articles which attempt to address this profound issue. Most likely because nobody has a clue what the imaginary soul is anyway. However, I'm surprised that some religious scholars haven't had the bright idea that this explains the Trinity, three-in-one concept. They're just monozygote triplets, in which case, they were truly a single individual to start with, hence one soul and one being, even though they split into three physical parts.