(April 24, 2017 at 2:14 pm)SteveII Wrote:(April 24, 2017 at 1:32 pm)Jehanne Wrote: There are multiple interviews, long and the edited short. Just listen to the latter -- Moreland, in response to Kuhn's question, says that he believes that one-celled amoebas have souls. Ergo, a sperm is much more complex than an amoeba!
I listened to the whole interview. What was the definition of 'soul' that he was using when he said that and what distinction did he make between humans and animals and life? You love to mischaracterize nearly everything you about anyone you don't agree with.
"You don't believe in souls, so therefore you advocate humans behave like savage animals".......
Nope, that is not what atheists or scientist who accept evolution are claiming.
Our more developed brains and more complex language can, WHEN HUMANS CHOOSE, lead us to be compassionate and caring. Nobody I'd call sane is advocating lawlessness or rape or murder.
But what science is saying is that our behaviors both good and bad stem from prior life. We know from our primate cousins that they also compete in their social structures, they also display acts of kindness within the group but can also be violent to other members or other groups. Nothing in what I just said is advocating humans be savages.
If you can accept that a blade of grass does not have a soul, and is made up of DNA, then what makes you think humans have one? What frightens you so much about "you" being nothing more than your brain in motion? That doesn't frighten me one bit.
All life is made up of DNA, so if you are not willing to extend the idea of a "soul" to other life, then you are merely cherry picking. I think the simple solution as to why humans claim the existence of "souls" is because they want a fictional "forever" but cant see that it is mere fiction.
Our bigger brains and more complex language are what make humans different, but we are still only one species in evolution but not the most important.
