How did evolution do this?

Question

How did people evolve souls?

And if you dont believe in souls, how did people come up with morals, ethics, and feelings such as love? Please be detailed with your responses.

animals posses some of these traits, to an extent. I guess what i am asking about, is sentiency, how did that evolve. And i dont believe it was "smart" humans, cuz really, we humans are not smart enough to do that on our own.

ha. i dont believe im pushing my anything onto anyone. You didnt have to read this question, you didnt have to answer, it doesnt have to affect you in any way. I haven't even stated if i have any religious affiliation. I just meerly asked a question because i was curious.

Answer 1

For the guy that says to prove the existence of the soul. The soul is the nonphysiological portion of who you identify as yourself. To prove its existence is an absurdity because by the function of thought you are excersizing the faculty of the soul. So you need to stop being ignorant.
Evolution is a bankrupt idea of wishful thinking people who will grab at anything that will keep them from realizing a divine apriori to all that exists.
Faith is the place that evidence leads when reason and logic are excersized according to the purpose set by its creator.
To bring animate thinking agency from an inanimate, nonthinking prior postulate is contrary to reason and the laws governing causation.
Science by its own admission can make conclusions from that which is reproducible and observable so the THEORY of evolution is only an absurdity which thinking people should toss on the trash heap where it belongs.

Remember this. Anything that begins to be must have an adequate cause and it cannot be demonstrated that an effect can be greater than that which caused it to be. Therefore if personality exists then it must be that personality always was.

Answer 2

Souls, by definition, are not of material/physical stuff so it's useless to ask about its "evolution" since evolution is all about the physical.

Morals/Ethics came about from the dynamics of society. You can imagine a few cavemen living together, interacting, and realizing that some things are better not done(taking away other's food for instance since it results to retaliation). Then further imagine that this society grows and more things happen that cause problems and more realizations of how the group should do about socially. Even modern man didn't have ethics and morals defined all at once in one era and remained undeveloped in the next. Moral and ethical laws grow as new things result from the dynamics and progress within society and people wonder at their effects to life. Decades ago, there was no such debates about artificial intelligence and the impact of genetic science such as stem cell research. In other words, morals and ethics develop from society's everyday experience(realization) and not as a given finished product.

Answer 3

1) What you call "soul" and some call "spirit" is -- if it exists -- a product of the human brain, which is a product of evolution.

2) Oh, come now. When you were about eight years old -- long before you ever thought about souls -- you figured out that some things are right and some are wrong and if you do the wrong things you'll make people mad at you. That's morality. And you didn't need something invisible to teach it to you.

When you were a little older, you noticed just how hard it is to choose to do the right thing for the right reason. That's ethics. And again, you worked that out for yourself, just as everybody else does.

As for love, that's the ultimate act of selflessness and most of us will spend a lifetime trying to achieve it, not at the urging of something mystical or magical, but simply in response to the most basic of human desires: the desire for companionship, for community.

Answer 4

There is no part of evolution from one species to us that requires the addition of a soul along the way.

As far as "intelligence" is concerned, the only leap in intelligence has been during the last 40,000 years during which us Homo Sapiens have became intelligent. This gap is mainly a gap of society rather than evolution however, and it can be clearly seen from the scale of intelligence amongst the animals that we do not possess any particular things that other animals do not have a capacity for.

The soul would not have played a significant part in evolution. The soul itself must have evolved with us, within us.

Answer 5

Again, someone not thinking outside the box. It either has to be black or white, doesn't it? One way or the other.

I personally believe that Deity created evolution.

Morels and ethics developed over time through trial and error. We didn't always believe that diplomacy was the best way to treat a criminal until proven guilty. Look at the Bible, if you sinned you were stoned to death. There was no trial, there was no proof required. If you were accused, you died.

Love has been linked to the requirement for species' to survive. Sexual love is nature's way to unsure we mate and reproduce. Affectionate love is a way to make sure a species can survive in a group. You know that old saying "strength in numbers"? Well, that doesn't seem to work so well when that group can get along.

Answer 6

They didn't.

People came up with religion. By claiming that a higher power handed down divine law, people were able to claim power, while molding and guiding what they believed should illustrate a civilized society. Primitive tribes realized that killing would reduce the population, so they made it a mandate of a god to not kill friviously. Theft could result drive another to kill, so that was outlawed. Homosexuality didn't perpetuate the species, and could transmit disease...so claim a god says its wrong. Certain foods if not stored properly could kill, so find a way to prevent people from eating them (pigs have a hoof just like the devil for example).

Secular civilizations held less power than religious for a long time, simply because of superstition. The laws established by religions, for the most part, molded society as we know it today.

Answer 7

Show the evidence for the existence of a soul, and perhaps we can discuss it more.

Regarding ethics/morals, all social animals exhibit ethics (though not necessarily the same as ours). You can't live in a social environment if you don't. Game theory has proven out that being nice until provoked is actually an optimum strategy when you will be involved with the same people repeatedly. Any fool can figure out that if he's mean to people, they will be mean in return.

Answer 8

The soul is a literary device. Not even all Christian religions believe that there is a seperate part of a person that is a soul.

As for morals and ethics. That was all trial and error. People learned early on what was best for the group and what didn't work. Example: "I don't like it when someone (hurts, lies to, steals from, kills) me, so I shouldn't do it to others."
Then: "I should help people around me who are less fortunate, since someday I may be in that position, and they will think better of me."

And we just went on from there. Morals are practical, not some mystic decree from above. Mankind created them over many years of failure.

Answer 9

There is no design without a designer. Einstein said that, "God doesn't play craps with the universe." So, if there is a God, and He is the creator, then we didn't evolve anything. We were created with it. The first law of thermodynamics states that nothing is created and nothing is destroyed. Creation happened once. All is there from the beginning. Just like all variartions of dogs came from one ancient wolf dog, all things are in us already. Nothing evolves, it merely varies within the information already contained.

However, there is a group dynamic that has given us certain group survival skills. For instance, it's safer in the group. Anyone that disrupts that, like say, kills or rapes, was immediately kicked out of the group. Love is a feeling for procreation of the species... for it's survival.

Now, those are two schools of thoughts out of many, but for my own study, that's as far as i have come...

Answer 10

Humans without souls would have been just as self-serving as other predator species, survival of the fittest. They would have fought over the food, over the opposite sex, fought over everything. We would now be just like the chimps. I do think there are people without souls, they're called serial killers, no morals, no ethics, no love. Can you imagine what giving birth would have been like for women without souls? If we all started like that, there would be no governments, no marriages, no groups because people without souls would want everything for themselves, soulless people wouldn't exactly cooperate to make things better for anyone else, it would be a very ugly, primitive place. Nope, if God hadn't have given us souls, we wouldn't be here.