(September 7, 2016 at 4:56 pm)SteveII Wrote: No, I don't agree. Your position is that there is no soul (not simply agnostic about it). How do you know this? Modern science has not explain the mind or consciousness let alone how it evolved. Since humans are designed to naturally believe in the supernatural, we therefore have an intuition about a soul. Seems to me that on one side of the scale you have no scientific knowledge in which to make a determination and on the other side of the scale, we have a fairly universal intuition that one exists. So, if you can't defend you premise there is no soul, then your conclusion therefore '...there is no heaven... and ...Christianity is just a myth' is unsupported and just an opinion.
Well, why don't you give us some evidence then? First start with a working definition for 'soul' that is clear and concise. Then tell us what the soul actually does, how it functions, how we could determine that it exists and what we would expect to see if it does exist.
And please steer clear of the litany of fallacies, e.g. arguments from ignorance and 'soul' of the gaps, most people resort to when trying to prove the soul.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
