# babies, souls, and God **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [May 6, 2003, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babies-souls-and-god/173504 "2003-05-06T20:50:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![PatriotX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@PatriotX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatriotX)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babies-souls-and-god/173504/41 "2003-05-29T00:27:03Z")
Do animals besides humans have souls? ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babies-souls-and-god/173504/42 "2003-05-29T00:27:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SnoopyFan \* > \*\*I personally think the soul shows up when conception happens … as in sperm meeting egg, not zygote attaching to wall. > > So what if there are a lot of miscarried babies running around in heaven? Is this a BAD thing? Is God not able to make heaven big enough for lots and lots of people? \*\* Well, I guess the problem I have with it is: What’s the point? What are souls _for_ if not to be connected to a being with free will? Julie ---
**Author:** ![Blake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a9a28c/32.png) [@Blake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blake)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babies-souls-and-god/173504/43 "2003-05-29T00:36:56Z")
LeKatt, why do you quote entire posts when responding to them? Couldn’t you just quote the relevant parts? ---
**Author:** ![Blake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a9a28c/32.png) [@Blake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blake)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babies-souls-and-god/173504/44 "2003-05-29T00:48:22Z")
LeKatt, why do you quote entire posts when responding to them? Couldn’t you just quote the relevant parts? ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babies-souls-and-god/173504/45 "2003-05-29T01:00:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by sivispacem \* > \*\*Based in no fact or scientific evidence whatsoever, my personal explaination is that your soul is created when you’re first aware you’re being loved. So technically that puts it at about the 7 month fetus point I think. \*\* How can a 7 month fetus know it is loved? ---
**Author:** ![Blake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a9a28c/32.png) [@Blake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blake)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babies-souls-and-god/173504/46 "2003-05-29T01:11:32Z")
> [@](#): > > Based in no fact or scientific evidence whatsoever, my personal explaination is that your soul is created when you’re first aware you’re being loved. So a child raised by unloving parents on the American frontier 150 year ago never had a soul? Or a Bengaldeshi street urchin whose parents never cared for it and who had to survive on the streets. Such an individual could conceivably reach adulthood without a soul. Hell, if a child becomes a drug addicted prostitute at age 10 it’s quite possible to become an adult, give birth to an equally unloved child, and then die ithout ever having a soul., [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babies-souls-and-god/173504.md?page=2)