It's true, there are a lot of religious people out there, but even most who aren't believe that we humans have 'souls'. I know it's a bit depressing, but why can't we just be a collection of genes? After all, genes bascially control what kind of person we are predisposed to be, with some environmental influence thrown in.
A soul is usually thought of as the essence of a person, and not necessarily their physical body. It's the part of us that "lives on", for those religious people. What if we just die? What if there is nothing afterwards, would the soul truly exist, or is it all in our heads?
2007-03-03 02:57:19 · 14 answers · asked by organizedchaos356 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
Well, you see, this argument pertaining to souls has been being bounced around within my own mind for quite some time now, and so I will attempt an answer; in my mind, souls are the essence of being. How do we perceive the world? Through thought. What makes each human individual is his or her thought processes and ideas, and so therefore, thought most accurately represents my idea of a soul, seeing as a "soul" is the spiritual essence of a person. What makes each person different? Thought. So therefore, thought is the soul. People believe we die when our soul leave our physical body; without thought, we also cannot live (effectively, at least). That is my argument; I understand that science cannot prove this, but it is what I firmly believe. Thought is the soul.
2007-03-03 08:14:39 · answer #1 · answered by whatifgecko 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You have asked the question under a science category (biology) and deserve at least one scientific answer. I personally know of no scientific, double-blind peer reviewed proof that God or souls exist. I also personally know of no scientific, double-blind proof that God and souls do not exist. That said it is as difficult to prove the positive as the negative. I read (in an encyclopedia) once of a society of people who lived "as if" there were a God. They choose to believe that their lives would be richer and more rewarding if they lived as though there was a God who noticed and cared how they conducted themselves. I knew a couple who lost a young child who suffocated from a constricted throat because they didn't rush to the emergency room following their doctor's advice to stay home. They were devastated and having a difficult time carrying on until someone gave them a book to read (Life after Life by Raymond Moody) that gave them at least a ray of hope that their child was waiting for them. Moody was a medical doctor who interviewed many people (many whom came to him) after near-death experiences, often during operations. Another very religious couple lost their beautiful talented daughter who died of cancer while in college. They believed that their daughter was on a train ride to a new destination and some day they would take that same train. Some people do not want or need a scientific answer to sustain their beliefs. Who can prove them wrong?
2007-03-03 04:20:03 · answer #2 · answered by Kes 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
in case you yet basically bypass to the e book of Genesis financial disaster 2, you will locate that a soul isn't something greater desirable than the mix of the physique or the dirt of the floor that replaced into shaped and the breath of existence given by skill of God. Takes the two to have a soul, you're no longer given one, you're one. As for the thoughts, there are a number of stuff which would be unable to be defined and how the thoughts works is one in each and every of them. there are a number of undemanding approximately it yet plenty greater that may not user-friendly approximately it and how it works. there is existence after death yet no longer as maximum instruct it. once you die, the breath that God gave you is going back to God and the physique or dirt returns to the Earth from the place it got here. Even Jesus defined it as a snooze as does something of the bible writers and the time of the resurrection of God's people would be on the 2d coming of Jesus. no one is going to Heaven in the previous that as maximum are taught and that i could undertaking absolutely everyone to instruct even one place that announces distinctive. There are none.
2016-09-30 03:44:44 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's hard to accept that we stop existing at some point. We can't even imagine what it would be like to not exist since since imagining it requires the very Self or Soul we are trying to not picture. Yes, it possible, probably even likely, that there is no soul and clinging to the notion that there is one is our denial that we someday won't exist. But I hope there is something that continues to live on.
2007-03-03 03:03:38 · answer #4 · answered by El Charangista 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People have seen ghosts, and I saw a television show where a woman could communicate with people's dead family and friends, and they family's were like wow my mom would have said that, you couldn't have know that without talking to her. The dead people never said what it was like to be dead or anything like that, the lady should ask them next time. So those are good reasons to believe in souls. But yea, I am still afraid we might just die, sure hope we go to heaven forever, that would be awesome.
2007-03-03 03:03:11 · answer #5 · answered by skooltransformer 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well, we definitely have souls. I'm not religious, and I know this to be true. And, I believe that our souls die with our body; death is death. (Our soul may live on--well, hopefully it will--in the hearts and minds of people who knew us when we lived, but that's it...no reincarnation or anything like that, people who love us and knew us when we lived just keep it alive by remembering us and our "essence").
2007-03-03 03:01:42 · answer #6 · answered by christina rose 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I once asked this same kind of question in answers. But it was just for fun. I just know its all in our heads. Our brain is our soul. Our brain is what makes us 'feel' we are there. Its the complicated chemical composition of the brain, the one that no man has never been able to understand fully, thats the soul.
2007-03-03 03:03:17 · answer #7 · answered by Vikram K 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It doesn't actually matter. The point is that beleif in the afterlife is important to certain people whilst they are alive. It gives people hope, helps them to deal with grief and overcome fear of death. It is a comfort to people and helps them place themselves firmly in an enormous universe.
Whether or not they are right is of no importance.
2007-03-03 03:04:15 · answer #8 · answered by penny century 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are correct..
We are just a collection of genes...
We live on through our children...
No souls...
No afterlife...
2007-03-03 03:01:03 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Souls do not exist.
2007-03-03 05:01:49 · answer #10 · answered by runescape sucks 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋