RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] [RELIGION] Billions Planets Likely in MilkyWay

["Hargus, Diana" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

And what would it say if they could not bring forth sentience from the
clone? 

Diana

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>Likely in MilkyWay
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>That's gonna be pretty tough when the evangelical types 
>consistently call for banning cloning.
>
>I wonder what type of theological debate it would spark to 
>clone a human? Say, for example, some Korean scientist cloned 
>an adult human and the resulting clone behaved exactly as the 
>original...or, if it behaved completely different. Isn't there 
>some interesting intellectual debate to be had on that topic 
>regarding souls?
>
>Personally, I suspect that debate is at least part of the 
>reason for the stance against cloning.
>
>Rick
>
>Phillip Kelchen wrote:
>> Well, I can't speak for the Christians, but unless we can either 
>> travel to those planets and see for ourselves or create life 
>in a lab 
>> of our own (and thus knowing what it takes to make life,) we 
>can't say 
>> that there is or isn't. It's the whole proof of the universal 
>> negatives and the fact that we haven't seen any life out 
>there that prevents anybody from saying either way.
>> 
>> I think that the Christians that think that there would be 
>no life on 
>> other planets think that as it didn't say that God put it there 
>> explicitly in the Bible as it said that he put life on Earth.
>> 
>> Phillip
>> 
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>neighbors over for dinner..then kill them and take their land!!
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