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    Do You Really Have A Soul?

    After debating the idea of the soul for centuries, we invented the "mind."

    It may seem unimaginable now, but we didn’t always think we had minds. We thought we had souls, which were immortal and rational.

    Mind—neither the Christian soul nor the brain—was a radical idea when it arrived in the mid-1600s in Europe and Great Britain, reports psychiatrist and historian George Makari, in Soul Machine: The Invention of the Modern Mind. He gives the most credit for our modern concept to John Locke, the political philosopher who inspired the U.S. Constitution.

    Locke was also a Christian, who like many of us today believed that the soul is the seat of human consciousness, a spark of God that resides within our bodies, but isn’t flesh and so can survive into the afterlife.

    Our souls were our source of reason and dignity and our consolation when dying. In medieval times in Christian Europe, when people slipped into what we now see as mental illness, they were judged souls in danger of damnation, possessed by demons or the Devil. ... - https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/b...ally-have-soul

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    I have no soul because I am a biological machine.

    The burden of proof is on the one making the claim that soul's exist. If they exist then there should be some evidence of it when a person suffers from brain damage such as a stroke, a brain tumor or dementia.

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    Quote Originally Posted by skepticalmike View Post
    I have no soul because I am a biological machine.

    The burden of proof is on the one making the claim that soul's exist. If they exist then there should be some evidence of it when a person suffers from brain damage such as a stroke, a brain tumor or dementia.
    Having a soul is sort of like natural rights.

    You got them even if you reject them.
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    For Christians there is no debate. It would be like me debating climate change. Do I believe it will change, of course I do. Just not the same as unbelievers that try to prove God wrong. He said near the end times the seas would rage, pestilence, earthquakes ext.. He even said people would promote sustaining from meat.
    Are people walking around with severed minds, yes and no hocus pocus can reverse it. Just as in the Bible they walked around proud. Are some people still possessed, yes. It didn't end back then.

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    Quote Originally Posted by skepticalmike View Post
    I have no soul because I am a biological machine.

    The burden of proof is on the one making the claim that soul's exist. If they exist then there should be some evidence of it when a person suffers from brain damage such as a stroke, a brain tumor or dementia.
    The soul is energy. Are you saying you're not made up of any energy?

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    Quote Originally Posted by jet57 View Post
    The soul is energy. Are you saying you're not made up of any energy?
    Great post.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    Great post.
    People and animals have an aura. An aura can be photographed with Kirlian photography. I can feel auras by holding out my hands in front of me facing the person.I believe auras are an energy field that is also called the soul.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dr. Strangelove View Post
    People and animals have an aura. An aura can be photographed with Kirlian photography. I can feel auras by holding out my hands in front of me facing the person.I believe auras are an energy field that is also called the soul.
    I have heard that some people can see auras.
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    The existence of a soul is not consistent with the theory of evolution and it is not needed to explain human behavior. If there is a soul, then why isn't there evidence of it with Alzheimer's patients? The brain displays gradual

    evidence of physical degradation at the same time that the mind shows evidence of decline. If some portion of a person's brain is physically damaged that generally correlates with a predictable change in

    behavior. Where is the soul when this brain damage occurs?

    This is from wikipedia's discussion of the soul, the scientific response.:

    The current scientific consensus across all fields is that there is no evidence for the existence of any kind of soul in the traditional sense. Many modern scientists, such as Julien Musolino, hold that the mind is merely a complex machine that operates on the same physical laws as all other objects in the universe.[117] According to Musolino, there is currently no scientific evidence whatsoever to support the existence of the soul;[117] he claims there is also considerable evidence that seems to indicate that souls do not exist

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    Quote Originally Posted by jet57 View Post
    The soul is energy. Are you saying you're not made up of any energy?
    I don't know what it means to say that the soul is energy. I view the soul as a religious or philosophical concept that is based on no evidence.

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