I mean how do you believe everything comes to life?
Please no crap.
2007-01-15 23:50:38 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I consider myself an atheist, in the sense that there are no gods. However even through the study of physics we open an infinite of possibilities that would allow for such a concept to exist.
So personally, yes, I do believe in the concept of a 'soul'...
2007-01-15 23:57:31 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
There's no such thing as a "soul", and those who believe in souls can't even agree on what they mean by that. Try it - ask around. You'll find that everyone means something different.
The second sentence of your question doesn't seem to make any sense. What would "having a soul" have to do with coming to life?
In fact the word "soul" exists because it provides people with a "deus ex machina" to save bad arguments, such as those for life after death and the notion that a fertilized egg "is" a human being. If you try to argue for those things, you find yourself up against a dead end. They're false, and you can't argue them into truth. So instead, you invent a mysterious invisible "soul" thing - a thing that ONLY exists in order to save your false beliefs - and plug it in as though it were real.
2007-01-16 08:07:08 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't see any evidence that a soul is required for life. A plant lives, an animal lives, and a human lives. All live through scientifically explained reasons. A soul is not part of the equation.
2007-01-16 13:28:33 · answer #3 · answered by Take it from Toby 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is a difference between conscience and soul as perceived by religionists. I am not an atheist but I cannot prove there is a soul. I do have a conscience, knowing right from wrong within the society we live in but a soul???
If it makes one feel better and more secure that there is a soul and an afterlife and all these things I consider myths it is OK by me, but please do not try to proselytize me.
2007-01-16 07:59:47 · answer #4 · answered by emiliosailez 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Biochemistry is the only game in town. It is amazing what it can do, but our extraordinary self-awareness is not the same as the religious concept of a "soul". We evolved intelligence as a tool for survival - perhaps because we are one of the smaller and weaker animals, we survived if we used the environment to our advantage - and this ratcheting away resulted in our remarkable brains.
But there is no soul.
2007-01-16 08:07:36 · answer #5 · answered by Bad Liberal 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Not without evidence. Things come to life because of chemical reactions.
2007-01-16 10:14:32 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Chemical reactions. Sorry Gazoo but even the "electrical" reactions are just chemical reactions.
2007-01-16 08:13:20 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm not one of them but it wouldn't make any sense to believe in a soul and not believe in God, no God no soul.
2007-01-16 07:57:19 · answer #8 · answered by Sean 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Chemical reactions, probability, and eons of evolution. That's life.
2007-01-16 08:00:47 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
no i don't.
does a single celled organism have a soul(like an ameba or even crayfish?) if not, why would a organism with millions of cells have a soul?
evolution.
2007-01-16 07:59:11 · answer #10 · answered by William G 2 · 3⤊ 2⤋