(March 28, 2013 at 7:44 pm)ChadWooters Wrote:(March 28, 2013 at 6:08 pm)Joel Wrote: ...with each new 'spiritual experience' that is being attributed to natural means, there is a dwindling need to say that it's spiritual, and experienced through the soul... is ever decreasing.Not necessarily so. The existence of a soul is not a 'God in the gaps' explanation. It is a theory to explain all observed phenomena.
Oh, okay. That makes more sense.
But, even if it's a theory to explain phenomena; when that phenomena can be explained through a natural explanation, why is it that people will deny that and continue with their soul theory?