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On Thu, 5 Oct 2006, Rick wrote:
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?
I don't know if the planets issue is related to the cloning issue, but I
can say that we know that clones will not behave identically. We know
this because so-called identical twins (actually called monozygotic or MZ
twins) are clones of one another (identical nuclear DNA except for somatic
mutations) and they are not identical in behavior. They have correlations
of about .40 on some personality tests and correlations in IQ of around
.70. So they are similar but not exactly alike.
Mike
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