Bjorn posted:
" is it really
possible to make a human being in a lab? And if it is,
then isn't Christian doctrine with respect to man
simply false, and materialism is true? "
Answer to #1. Not yet, but all indications are that it will be very soon
-- I'd guess within the next 10 years.
Answer to #2. Not at all. Clones are made all the time, just not by
direct human intervention. Every identical twin ever born is a clone of
his twin. We surely do not attribute one soul to two (or more) people
just because they are twins, triplets, etc.
The larger question, one which I've not seen addressed so far, is what
happens when scientist/doctors are successful in producing a living being
from the sperm of a male human and the egg of a female chimp? Or vice
versa. That's certainly a possibility. What do we call the result? How do
we treat it? Worse -- how do we treat its offspring?
Burgy (John Burgeson)
www.burgy.50megs.com
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