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A thought relevant to this subject, in response to some of the earlier postings: Science, generally speaking, is the study of how things work, to the extent that they work in a controllable, repeatable way. Non-repeatability is accommodated so long as it can be modeled a well defined...

In appraising the overall picture, its reasonable to weight the experience of the higher animals more heavily than the lower ones, for the reason you mention: the lower ones aren't aware of as much. I think you diminish the awareness of animals like horses too much, to say that their...

A nitpick with this....I agree that the soul isn't subject to anything like the same limitations as a particular flesh body, and also that its not bound by any particular faction's ideas about reincarnation. Furthermore, a lot of the limitations that people view as natural laws aren't actually...

Amergin, I agree that that if you could destroy the physical basis of your soul in all times and places, then the soul would be gone also. But I don't think the soul is something that moves along in time like the body it depends on. Though it depends on the body, its not a...

In my view, belief in a benevolent higher power can be combined with evolution, but it requires a paradigm shift to make it work without contradictions. Evolution is a brutal process. (If you don't see it that way, consider the case of a mother duck and duckings. Very cute, very...