There is no God or, at the very least, no reason to believe in one. There is an objective reality, but no objective meaning or purpose in the universe. Any meaning a person assigns to his life is limited to himself, and has no objective truth. Life is only an accident of natural processes, and all spiritual experiences can be explained in natural terms. The "soul" is a name given to mere consciousness, and is just the subjective experience of a functioning nervous system. Science is the only tool with which to accrue knowledge of the universe. There are likely limits to what the human brain can grasp, as it has just been selected to help us survive in the world. It is possible that the "big" questions such as, "why is there something instead of nothing", are meaningless, and that the brain is at fault for not being able to comprehend something without an initial cause.
2007-08-29
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