Do animals have souls???

Question

What are your beliefs???

Answer 1

Since there is no scientific evidence for the existence of souls, it falls to your personal religious beliefs as to what types of creatures have souls.

I should also point out that humans are animals. We just have larger brains than other animals, and opposable thumbs.

Answer 2

My belief is that I have a soul. I only think that because something came to me and communicated to me that my mother had died 6000 miles away. I was an agnostic/atheist before that moment but it was so profound that I cried, "Oh God, Please don't let it be so". It was actually more dramatic than that and I left out many details for the sake of brevity. I will just say for the scientific skeptics that I had no idea that she was that sick and had not spoken to her for 3 weeks. For it to communicate directly into my mind makes me doubt that we are only physical beings.

I am still a total scientist and believe that there is absolutely no reasonable doubt that we are evolved from lower animals. Did our ancestor 3 million years ago have a soul. I don't know but I suspect that it did. It may be that some animals have them but their mind is so limited that it very different than ours. We use words and language and it is difficult for us to understand the minds of animals that don't. It is a good question for religious people like me that don't mind questioning everything.

Answer 3

No, animals do not have a soul. Neither do the higher primates, including you and me, humans.

A soul is something you believe you have. Just like you are going to Heaven when you die. What you do have is a conscious and a sub-conscious. No animal other than human has those.

Answer 4

Beliefs have no weight. A better question would be, " what is your evidence for the soul "?

Answer 5

that's what me & some of my friends were talking about. one said "animals do but insects do" another said "i don't really know... but i guess we'll find out when we die" then the last one said something like "my dog duz cuz i love her" those guys are just BLAH! i told them all that i think that anything w/ feelings should have a soul! i stand by that cuz it sounds like the most accurate so far!

Answer 6

We are the highest form of animals and if we have souls they have souls.They have respect and dignity like us humans.Even though their not smart as humans.

Answer 7

We're aniamals and we have souls. Yes I belielve all living things have souls.

Answer 8

Only mammals (and humans) dream. . so maybe only mammals have souls (humans too). Not sure..

Answer 9

souls have to be linked to inteligence
this is what i belief

INTELIGENCE IN NATURE
,it is said that the birds navigate by the sun ,or have genetic memory ,but there are too many other cases with other species that somehow do not make complete sense so it could be much more than just this

so if you bear with me i will give you more examples of inteligence in nature,to demonstrate the point

BIRDS
birds do not just fly to their destinations ,they hop on regular aircurrents that surround the globe as if hopping on a bus ,then they only flap their wings a bit to keep in line and in position ,they exchange leaders frequently (because this position is the most tiring )and they travel on the collective WAKE ,they create, to make the flight even easier

how do the birds know which is their wind current that for example goes to the Bahamas and not the one for another bird that goes to south Africa

and Nature is full of similar mysteries

SPIDERS
there is a spider which sticks its rear end in the wind and shoots out a strand of web which acts as a parachute and the wind takes it to another place where all his brothers and sisters are,several species do this by the millions and all of them end up in different places,grouped with their bothers and sisters

.How does the spider know which piece of wind is for him to take it to the correct location where is the intelligence,???

FISH


there is a fish a distant cousin of the salmon which at the spring tide, waits for the highest wave(and out of the hundres of waves there is only one that is the highest)to carry her up into the rockpools to deposit the eggs.
how does it know which is the highest wave????

the young fish take 3 weeks to devellop by which time the second highest wave returns them to the sea
.how do they know which is the second highest wave.how do the eggs know they got 3 weeks to devellop,
WHERE IS THE INTELIGENCE??
is it in the birds or the fish or the spider ,or is it external in the air or the water ,

American Indians have always been aware of this intelligence and called it Manitoe,we call it Gaia
and it is the intelligence of the organism called Earth ,through the medium of water (99 out of 100 of all the molocules in our bodies is water.the same ratio as water on this planet)

Source(s):

heavens breath by Lyall Watson

Sensitive Chaos by Theodor Schwenck on the Rudloph steiner press

ANIMAL EMOTIONS

GRATITUDE
and i once rescued some gold fish from a certain death in a drying pond .
picked them out of the mud and put them in a pond with water.
I then sat by the side of the pond,What happened next was amazing ,all 6 of them came in front of me and jumped up from the water ,and then disappeared,Gold fish are not known for jumping out of the water.
there was maybe 15 minutes involved
,so here was proof that there memory span was at least that.

SORROW
Elephants have a funeral when one of them dies ,with each elephant going to the dead one and touching it with his trunk to say good bye,
Dogs can die of sadness.
baboons have a very strict social orders .as do most apes and monkeys,they can do things for revenge and even for humour,

Memory
Killer whales have brains larger than us ,and they can see 4 dimensions ,we only see three,and they can remember certain people that they know for many years after ,so do Grizzlies,and Dolphins

PLANTS,Fear
some information indicates that plants do have feelings,emotions and maybe even intelligence.

The north American Indians ,dance around a tree singing that they are going to kill it,they then quickly turn around and chop its neighbor down,taking it by surprise.
this suggest that they believe the tree has feelings.

There once was a famous experiment,whereby 7 people walked into a room where there was a big plant,that was wired up to a lie detector.
One of the people had a knife and cut some parts of the plant.
then later when the people were brought before the plant again,the lie detector gave a violent leap in its readings ,when the person with the knife was brought before it.
the same experiment was done with trees and in all cases the same result.
so who says who has feelings or souls.

Counter Attack

a eucalyptus tree when it is being attacked by a Caterpillar sends messages via pheromones trough the air which are picked up by similar trees often many miles away.
when the caterpillars reach this tree it is ready for them and kills them with a poison ,that it has developed in the meantime and secretes trough its leaves.

is this intelligence

Love
Plants belonging to people with green fingers ,who talk to their plants ,often do better.


dogs and cats have to be included fish already are ,
dont know personally of the others ,but it stands to reason ,and there must be levels of perception as there are different live spans
one cannot expect to much of a one day fly

so just because you do not speak the language does not mean that other life forms are stupid or limited ,they communicate amongst each other ,many species comunicating to other species ,simply by body language,signs,sounds smells,facial expressions, feremones or other chemical means,

Answer 10

Maybe.