Our server costs ~$56 per month to run. Please consider donating or becoming a Patron to help keep the site running. Help us gain new members by following us on Twitter and liking our page on Facebook!
Current time: August 10, 2026, 5:00 pm

Thread Rating:
  • 0 Vote(s) - 0 Average
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
“The Problem of Evil” in atheism and in Islam
#42
RE: “The Problem of Evil” in atheism and in Islam
(January 13, 2015 at 6:11 pm)paulpablo Wrote:
Quote: These acts are exemplified in taking nourishment, growing, reproducing, moving and perceiving. Since these acts do not belong to the nature of bodies, for this nature is devoid of WILL, they must belong to a principle they have other than bodies. This principle is what is called ‘soul’.

I'm really confused by this statement especially.

Eating and having sex are very much the nature of bodies, castration of a human male results in low sex drive or none at all.
Drugs can reduce appetite or increase it .
A human can override natural urges, like hunger and sex, but I think this is done with the brain, rather than the soul.

No, I have not read the OP but he is right in this. Soul is what we would call RNA as the greater part of the brain also known as TOL.

It is in the TOK that we think we are but really are not.

(January 13, 2015 at 6:28 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Hmn, then I guess we'll just never be able to get anything new, and if we didn't already have a work horse there will never be a workhorse, huh?

-Where did that first workhorse come from, then? Where did all of our agricultural species come from, then? If I don't have any corn already, where am I supposed to get it? If I don't have a tomato already, where am I supposed to get it? If I don't have a potato already, where am I supposed to get it?

Certainly not from mutations ricocheting away.
Reply



Messages In This Thread
RE: “The Problem of Evil” in atheism and in Islam - by Chili - January 13, 2015 at 6:30 pm

Possibly Related Threads...
Thread Author Replies Views Last Post
  Are cats evil beasts that should be killed to save mice? FlatAssembler 34 7924 November 28, 2022 at 11:41 am
Last Post: Fireball
  does evil exist? Quill01 51 12499 November 15, 2022 at 5:30 am
Last Post: h4ym4n
  Trolley Problem/Consistency in Ethics vulcanlogician 150 44805 January 30, 2018 at 11:01 pm
Last Post: bennyboy
  The argument against "evil", theists please come to the defense. Mystic 158 96956 December 29, 2017 at 7:21 pm
Last Post: Minimalist
  One sentence that throws the problem of evil out of the window. Mystic 473 139461 November 12, 2017 at 7:57 pm
Last Post: bennyboy
  Reasoning showing homosexuality is evil. Mystic 315 102248 October 23, 2017 at 12:34 pm
Last Post: Paraselene
  Reasoning showing that heterosexuality is evil I_am_not_mafia 21 8571 October 23, 2017 at 8:23 am
Last Post: ignoramus
Wink Emoticons are Intrinsically Good and Evil Fireball 4 2281 October 21, 2017 at 12:11 am
Last Post: Succubus
  Is knowledge the root of all evil? Won2blv 22 10110 February 18, 2017 at 7:56 pm
Last Post: Edwardo Piet
  My thoughts on the Hard problem of consciousness Won2blv 36 12446 February 15, 2017 at 7:27 am
Last Post: bennyboy



Users browsing this thread: 1 Guest(s)