Re: REQUEST : Cloning of Sheep: Duplicate Souls?

Posted By N. Tiwari (ntiwari@rs3.esm.vt.edu)
1 Apr 1997 22:04:22 GMT

Vishal (vishal@singnet.com.sg) wrote:
: You probably would have heard about the cloning of the sheep
: Dolly. Doesn't this conflict with the Hindu belief that every living thing
: has a soul? Creating a clone is creating a new life and a life must have a
: soul. This means we are creating a new soul. How do you explain this
: under the light of Hinduism.

It hardly does that. You can clone. But that does not
imply that the soul is also being cloned. I am not sure
as to how you came to that conclusion.

By the way, a clone by no means can be 100% identical
to its twin. Even my the standards as prescribed by
physical laws. Each clone, is subjected to its own
unique set of environmental impulses. Then, it lives
in its own space, at a given point of time. The other
clone, cannot occupy the same space, at the same time.
That implies, that the environmental impulses fed to
each clone HAVE to be different. And that in turn implies
that with time, the clones really are not clones.

--
Nachiketa Tiwari

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