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Would a Human Clone Have a Soul?

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Stand to Reason

Religion & Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality:christianity, Christianity

4.9601 Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2026

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Questions about whether or not a human clone would have a soul, when each identical twin receives a soul, whether anencephalic babies have a soul, and whether the fact that scientists can use AI to decode people’s thoughts by analyzing their brain activity disproves the soul.

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0:00.0

Well, Greg, today we have questions regarding your one of your favorite topics.

0:17.3

Oh, which is the small mouth bass fishing.

0:21.0

Can you imagine if I started asking questions?

0:24.6

What color stimulated reaction strike from a smallmouth bass during spawning?

0:29.9

African or European? Sorry. It's a Monty Python reference. Sorry. I know. That would do with a bird. Okay, got it.

0:40.0

Okay. Now that silliness is over.

0:42.6

This first question comes from Rolf.

0:45.1

Would a human clone have a soul?

0:49.1

The simple answer is yes.

0:51.4

And the reason I say that is actually multiple reasons. This depends to some,

0:59.2

well, I guess I got to back up on this. There's no specification in the question made as to how old

1:05.6

the human clone or the cloned human being. Maybe that's a better way of putting it.

1:11.7

Because sometimes if you say a human clone, what you're saying is it's a clone, that's

1:16.7

its main identity.

1:18.4

And it just happens to be a human clone, but it's a clone.

1:21.6

And then people get, have odd ideas about that.

1:25.2

But you say a cloned human being, then what we have is a human

1:28.5

being that came into existence through a process called cloning. And this is what we don't want

1:33.8

to lose sight of, that human beings are human beings no matter what method they came into being

1:42.3

by, whether it's the regular way or whether it's a clone way.

1:46.4

You know, cloning is just a way of mechanistically accomplishing what happens in a womb.

1:56.0

There are some unique aspects of it, and it's been a long time since we engage this issue.

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