Do trees and plants have a soul ? and how we can define a living creature ?

Answer 1

Soul is a supernatural belief; there is no scientific definition of the concept of soul, so there is no point answering this question scientifically.

The definition of a "living organism" is still a hot debate, and one is very free to have an opinion in what is a living creature and what is just a bunch of cells. That is what the people who debate about abortion is fighting about. Is the embryo a living creature? Is the blastocyte? Is the fetus? Science may give answers which will make you feel uncomfortable. So, what do you think?

Answer 2

Two excellent questions.
Both with many, many answers.
Animal souls. In some religions they do, in some they don't. And so shouldn't we define soul first?
You can define a living creature any way you want. Trouble is nobody may agree with you. There are two big problems with answering your question: what is a creature and what is living? Is a computer program "living"? What differentiates a virus from a prion from a bacteria from an amoeba from you?
And if your heart stops are you not a living creature? Is a bee hive a creature? how about lichen? or a colony of slime mold? Very difficult very tricky questions. If we ever get a good answer it will involve entropy, energy, information, emergence and complexity. Maybe we'll need to have conferences like the astronomers do, to define categories. Look what happened to Pluto!!

Answer 3

Loaded question, man!
First, about defining life: this is still a contended question among scientists, since we haven't decided whether or not viruses are living.
I consider living organisms to be those that can reproduce either by themselves or on an equal footing with another organism (sex or bacterial conjugation, etc). Living organisms are able to sense and respond to their environments, no matter how fundamental the level.
Soul: it depends on what you consider a soul, and how souls come about. If you think a soul relies on a central nervous system (like brains), then no, trees and plants wouldn't have a soul. If you think there's some independent life force of which all organisms share (the Force, Luke!), then they would have a soul. This would bring up serious ethical issues, since we step on plants all the time and constantly play with their genetics in order to optimize food production.
It seems that trees, being fewer in number and more majestic in stature, should be more likely to have a soul. However, this is a speciesist point of view - saying that one species is better than another. Who are we to judge that? We're just one species that developed on this planet. Babies that live for only a few minutes - do they have souls? If so, then plants should have souls, based on the length of time of existence.
Whether or not they have souls, we should care for all the organisms of the planet. We're the only species capable of doing so, and therefore it is our duty to protect and preserve as many species and individuals as we can.

Answer 4

Your first question is not a biology question. You should go ask it under religion since as far as science is concerned, there is no evidence whatsoever that there is such a thing as a soul.

Living creatures can reproduce and form new generations using energy obtained from lots of different sources depending on the nature of the creature and how it "eats".

Answer 5

1. No. But that's a guess.

2. We can define a living creature as something that is made out of at least one cell and is able to reproduce. This definition notably doesn't include a virus which is just dna wrapped in a protein that depends on other cells to reproduce.

Answer 6

Since there is no scientific proof of anything having a soul, your first question is unanswerable.

A living creature is something that continues it's own existance by the use of energy, and is capable (or will be or has been capable) of reproducing another generation, and thereby evolving.

An easier definition would be something that contains DNA in its structure....

Answer 7

Living creatures
as represented by Ezekiel (1-10) and John (Rev. 4, etc.), are
the cherubim. They are distinguished from angels (Rev. 15:7);
they join the elders in the "new song" (5:8, 9); they warn of
danger from divine justice (Isa. 6:3-5), and deliver the
commission to those who execute it (Ezek. 10:2, 7); they
associate with the elders in their sympathy with the hundred and
forty-four thousand who sing the new song (Rev. 14:3), and with
the Church in the overthrow of her enemies (19:4).

They are supposed to represent mercy, as distinguished from
justice, mercy in its various instrumentalities, and especially
as connected with the throne of God, the "throne of grace."
TREES AND PLANTS ARE SCIENTIFICALLY NOT HAVING SOUL BUT RELIGIOUSLY ARE HAVING IT

Answer 8

do u think u haf a soul?

living creature is anything that undergoes respiration, reproduction

Answer 9

Since this is the science section, you should understand that there is no soul. No such thing.