The Definition of ‘Franken-Stone’ - November 2025

I preface this report by acknowledging that I am a romantic.

My last communique was a GIF based upon the 1935 movie, the Bride of Frankenstein. My text read as follows:

“Look deeply behind the eyes (of the Bride of Frankenstein). The scientists created life, but it is …unnatural…The man-made creation has no soul. Science cannot replace nature. There is always something indescribable and yet indispensable missing. You can feel it.” 

I received this response from Toby Cruse, a General Manager at the Diamond Foundry, a well-known producer of man-made diamonds. This is his comment: 

“Guess you have a lot of time on your hands to put together such rubbish. Science can and does replace what nature made, very effectively! So much so that even you with only a loupe wouldn't be able to tell 2 x 1ct E VS stones apart. It is misleading and untrue to state that a natural diamond has or emits any form of soul/energy/vibrations. Complete nonsense.”    …well, how about that!

This is my response:

All romantics understand the different meanings of the word ‘soul’ and know that some concepts transcend explanation. In this context, the soul of an object refers to the way a person feels when they interact with that object. 

I believe that scientists can copy nature but cannot duplicate all aspects of any natural creation. This is the reason that the bride of Frankenstein has no soul and why I call the scientific duplication of a diamond “a Franken-Stone”. 

Science is an objective discipline. It does not dissect the human soul and boil it down to a simple equation. The soul belongs to a different realm. 

Like everything in nature, human beings are beautiful, imperfect, and complex both physically and emotionally.

I believe that to claim that a machine-made, mass-produced product is the same as a naturally occurring product, is an insult to nature and denigrates the physical and emotional history of all things natural.