One more dogma to add to the rest.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Ok, let's take it that "no consciousness can be killed". Are consciousnesses (!) continuingly created, for each new creature born? Or given the reincarnation angle, is it more like a pool of consciousness that's portioned out every time?

It is a pity that you are still stuck in so many dogmas Cyb.
If the creation would have a starting point it also would have a finishing point and at one stage the universe would finish and exist no more but it doesn't.
It has been there for ever and will be there for ever.
The creator never born so He also will never die.
The time is an illusion.
It is in the mind of someone who doesn't yet understand how the whole system works.
As soon as you realize that you never born you also realize that you will never die because you are the creator itself.
Illusions are a creator play.
As soon as you are tired to be part of this playing then spirituality is there to help you out and realize who you really are but the playing of creating more illusions and consciousness will continue for ever.
A drop of water that enter the ocean become the ocean itself.
This ocean however will let a continuous evaporation so new water will continue the cycle of leaving the ocean and at the end come back.
The process is endless but it will not affect you that already completed your cycle by realizing who you really are.  

Boru