Originally posted by josephwYour opinion that your "view is based on the truth of God's Word" is of course your personal opinion and your prerogative ~ and I fully understand why you believe it and where you got the ideology from. To say that "the soul and spirit are obviously not material" is neutral enough for a lot of people to agree with I think. What is not obvious at all is whether the "soul" can exist without a "material" host.
Yes, that is one 'view', but a 'view' is merely an opinion unless it is based on fact. My 'view' is based on the truth of God's Word, which identifies three aspects of what makes a human. The body is obviously the material aspect. The soul and spirit are obviously not material.
Originally posted by josephwDoesn't even make sense to speculate about it? I don't see why this has to be so. Curiosity and the ability to speculate are a couple of essential features of the human spirit. I am always fascinated by the degree to which a theist mind set often puts paid to so much of one's curiosity and independent mindedness.
The question is whether a 'soul' would exist if a body could be generated in a laboratory. [...] Doesn't even make sense to speculate about it.
Originally posted by FMFWe Christians have a book that takes away much of the speculation for us. We also have a photo that proves the resurrection to life of a dead body. 😏
Doesn't even make sense to speculate about it? I don't see why this has to be so. Curiosity and the ability to speculate are a couple of essential features of the human spirit. I am always fascinated by the degree to which a theist mind set often puts paid to so much of one's curiosity and independent mindedness.
Originally posted by sonhouseIf it did how would you know?
Suppose in some future lab a human was fast evolved from a man made life form. Given that, would that human have a soul? It would have all the regular human attributes we have, intelligence, humor, health, compassion, empathy and so forth. Would it have a soul? If it didn't, would we be able to tell a soul-less person like that, totally man made?
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Originally posted by josephwSomeone has to be silly in all this speculation🙂
Right sonhouse, that's just what I expect from science. Replicate the last 2 billion years of evolution to create a human body just to see if it will have a soul!!
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It seems to be agreed by the religious set here a cloned body would have a soul.
So why not a completely man made man? Just a what if question.
Originally posted by FMFThe removal of speculation about absurdities isn't intellectually and spiritually tragic. What is tragic is speculating about things beyond the grasp of novices posting in a forum as though they're enquiring into something that can really happen.
This removal of curiosity and speculation is intellectually and spiritually tragic in my view.
What if science could create a living human in a laboratory? Considering the lengths that science will go to create weapons of mass destruction with every new technological breakthrough, I wonder what evil would be unleashed from such an experiment. I wonder what moral and ethical boundaries would be crossed by attempting to play God in such a way.