as stated "there is such a thing as a soul, and it has been scientificly recorded" in this question:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AhUeNF8pKlnySjvEpbU0dN7sy6IX?qid=20060820005450AASZhiu
2006-08-20 09:18:01 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
well obviously its BS, but I was wondering if there is some pseudo-science data that the fundies claim amounts to this recorded "soul".
2006-08-20 09:33:01 · update #1
A soul is a concept. And even if it were real, there is no way it could be recorded, given that it's completely non-physical. At first, I thought the person was referring to the old experiment where some doctor literally weighed a dying person before/after death and concluded that the weight difference he found was the soul (!!). I then found someone on the web who claims a 'scientific proof' of the existence of the soul; the link to his 'thesis' as well as back-and-forth feedback from others can be found at the following:
http://forums.hypography.com/philosophy-humanities/406-scientific-proof-existence-soul-god.html
I think the author's PhD credentials, as well, are in question. Note that I recently went to a hypnotherapist who claimed that he had a PhD and was educated at 'Harvard'. What I found out that was that he bought a PhD from the now defunct diploma mill, 'Columbia State University' (the founder is in jail on fraud), and just took continuing education classes at an adjunct facility of Harvard (which ANYONE can do)!!. So ... watch out for PhD credentials, as well.
2006-08-20 09:34:55 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I hold no opinion as to the validity of the following information. I present it only in an attempt to answer your question from a "scientific" standpoint.
In 1907, Dr. Duncan Macdougall of Haverhill, Massachusetts, began a series of experiments seeking to determine whether a human soul could be weighed. He developed a special bed which was attached to a beam scale, accurate to two-tenths of an ounce. Six dying patients, one after another, were placed on this bed. He recorded his findings and published them in the April 1907 issue of American Medicine. In short, all six patients had a marked decrease in weight at time of death. He concluded that this was proof positive of a soul leaving the body.
Other doctors took him to task for failing to take into account certain physical anomalies that would explain the loss of body weight. Particularly, one Dr. Augustus P. Clarke accused Macdougal of failing to take into account the sudden and very pronounced RISE in body temperature at moment of death because the blood is no longer being air-cooled via its circulation through the lungs. Clarke opined that sweating and moisture evaporation caused by this rise in body temperature would account for the drop in weight (similar to today's athletes who lose several pounds of body weight due to fluid loss.)
The debate over whether or not humans have a soul went on through the end of that year and apparently "died out" (no pun intended!) because neither side could offer proof positive..... only speculation.
Again, I do not take sides on this debate.
2006-08-20 18:16:30 · answer #2 · answered by Angry C 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That question is misleading. There is no proof of a soul.
An object cannot be mass-free and physical, it cannot react with energy without having energy and mass is just condensed energy. In order to react with the brain it must have mass, but in order to be invisible it must be mass free. In order to be undamagable it needs to be mass free, but in order to see it requires photoreceptors and energy measuring devices which need to interact with the physical world.
2006-08-21 09:09:09 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Science measures the physical, the soul is of the spiritual.
2006-08-20 16:27:50 · answer #4 · answered by foxray43 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's not been.
It's just another empty claim by some desperate fundie.
2006-08-20 16:26:29 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No body has a soul. People are souls. The bible doesn't say "Adam came to have a soul." it says "he came to be a soul." There is a difference
2006-08-20 17:45:08 · answer #6 · answered by Arika K 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
it wasn't recorded but this means nothing. 500 years before the X-rays weren't scientifically recorded but they existed then as they exist now so if we cannot scientifically record the soul it doesn't mean that it doesn't exist.
2006-08-20 16:31:06 · answer #7 · answered by Sir Alex 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Like never, you know this.
2006-08-20 16:23:05 · answer #8 · answered by ? 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
never,by no means, nowhere.
2006-08-20 16:26:32 · answer #9 · answered by vitriol for the masses 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋