Jimmy Aiken's Mysterious World is brought to you by the Star Quest Production Network and is made possible by our many generous patrons.

If you'd like to support the podcast, please visit sQP.com slash Give. You're listening to episode 315 of Jimmy Aiken's mysterious world when we look

at mysteries from the twin perspectives of faith and reason.

I'm Don Metinelli and I'm joined today as always by Jimmy Aiken.

Hey Jimmy, I don't do that.

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So please enjoy the show. All right, so let's get into it then right, right away. The first question,

incidentally, is what I brought to you. It came from our discord community and it's this if

Frankenstein's monster from the Mary Shelley book was real would it have a soul and if

so would it have a new soul or the soul of one of the body parts donors?

And which one?

Well, every living creature has a soul, so Frankenstein's monster would have a soul once it was animated. The problem is

figuring out where that soul would have come from and basically there are a few

possibilities. It's one possibility is that the soul would come from one of the donors and if that's the

case my guess would be it would be the brain donor. On the other hand it's also possible that

it could be a newly created soul.

And since no one's made Frankenstein's monster yet, the church hasn't had occasion to figure

out this question, and ultimately it'd be up to God but if people started

making Frankenstein's monsters in significant numbers the church might have to weigh in on

this and try to figure out exactly where the soul was coming from.

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