Why does God not let us scientifically detect souls?

Question

Why has God made it so souls cannot be detected using scientific instruments?

Answer 1

http://members.xoom.alice.it/fedeescienza/mindandbrain.html

Answer 2

Who says this is so? For any scientific instrument to be able to detect something, the designer needs, at the very least, a theory as to what the target is comprised of and how it interacts with known phenomena. As there is no current theory for what a soul is and thus no guide as to the predictable behavior of such a thing, no instrument can be designed to detect it.

If you have such a theory, talk to some physicists and design your own detector....then let us know what you discover.

Answer 3

You got it backwards.

The soul was originally supposed to detect the spiritual realm until we botched it with sin, then the spirit within us died, so now we are left with only the physical.

The soul is NOT physical, so we can not detect it with physical instruments.

The soul is the seat of the emotions, and until such things as "love", "hate", "envy", "jealousy", etc. can be detected by physical instrumentations, neither will the soul. We can only see what happens in the physical realm as a result of these emotions, just as you can not actually see wind, but you can see the leaves blowing about as a result of the wind.

Answer 4

There are many religions - it is not possible for all of them to be correct, however it IS possible for all of them to be incorrect. Using your brain is good. Using your heart is also good (and, as it happens, necessary to live), because the heart is a muscle that pumps blood throughout your body. A little brain usage should remind you that the heart is not the source of emotions or faith - these things come from the brain (the non-rational part of the brain), the same part of the brain that invented the idea of god. This imaginary deity that humans came up with to explain unknown phenomenon was, ironically, not very imaginative: "Oooh, I can't explain this so it must be caused by some all-powerful, all-knowing force to which I will ascribe human characteristics and worship." "Hey, check it out. Look how many ignorant, non-thinking people I can control if I get them to follow my idea of god. Cool, they will even give me money." "I can prevent dissension if I say god is all knowing and all-powerful and make the masses afraid of not believing. I can quell the critical thinkers by saying that god is beyond the reach of naturalistic or scientific validation. I can dazzle the thoughtless masses with stories of miracles and sound bytes like: 'seek and ye shall find,' and 'absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.'" You see, science cannot disprove the existence of god, nothing can - the idea of faith is untouchable by reason. Science can, however disprove the claims and predictions of religions, provided they are specific enough - and there are many examples of this (science has shown us that the Earth is 4.55 billion years old, and that life has evolved over time, and that it's not possible to flood the entire Earth, etc.) It's not god that prevents us from the scientific examination of religion, it's your faith in the god idea substituting for reason.

Answer 5

God doesn't let science detect souls because then there would be a chance that scientist would tamper with God's divine design. I'm seriously we already have to worry about genetic engineering related problems, how would you like to worry about spiritual ones too.

Answer 6

Do not underestimate human ingenuity and science.
Just because we currently cannot detect souls does not mean we will not do so in the near future.
Its mostly an issue of getting the proper grants and funding. Thats how science works.
Soul-O-Metrics Reseach Foundation

Answer 7

Who says we won't have that technology very soon?

Also, you could say the soul already can be detected. Just look at the electrical activity in the brain. You could say that insects that electrical activity too, but this could be a different type of electricity.

Also, God does not want us to have direct evidence because that would take away free will.

Either way, I don't really know the answer but it is interesting to think about.

Answer 8

Because we ARE souls, we do not HAVE souls. Surely there are so many devices that can detect humans?

Answer 9

If our science surpassed God in knowledge he wouldn't be God. He gives us knowledge but in the beginning he told Adam and Eve NOT to eat of the tree of Knowledge.

Answer 10

What they called a 'soul' in the past is basically our subconscious, our "hard drive" of memories and codes. We'll learn much more when we have instruments to physically measure the action/existence at the quantum level.