There's a bunch of science fiction stories about teleportation and duplicates. Usually most don't go into the theological aspect, more about the ethical. As i

There's a bunch of science fiction stories about teleportation and duplicates. Usually most don't go into the theological aspect, more about the ethical. As in you should destroy the source once you verified a safe creation of the destination to "balance the equation". But yeah, like the Star Trek Replicators they can create virtually anything... though there's always some bit about some elements unable to be re-imaged. Though you raise another quandary of being able to play-back creation of objects including organic living elements (food, tea, etc.)... Mad science playing with the subject data and creating instant mutants...