When do babies get a soul?
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M*W: There are at least three answers to your question.
1) The christian version is that the soul is there from the time of conception.
2) The metaphysical version is that the soul is there for all eternity.
3) The atheist version is that there is no soul to begin with.
4) The reality version is that what has been mistaken for the "soul" is nothing more than bioelectric energy with a religious spin on it. I prefer this version.
It comes slowly with time, I got my consciousness when I was 2 years old while riding a bus and looking in a window at a cinema theater...I imagined myself inside the cinema, and became conscious of myself.
the symptom of the soul is life (materially there is no difference between a dead body and a living body - they are composed of the same compounds)
an ovum that splits into two doesn't amount to much unless there are two souls to enter it
So a baby doesn't get a soul until it is able to live on its own. So by saving premies are we forcing them to have a soul when they aren't ready?
they dont,
souls/spirits were thought to be breath/air/wind by those ancient primitive peoples who had no clue about what air is,so when someone died they thought their soul left them
here
www.atheists.org/Atheism/mind.html
welcome to the modern age
well, i'll add to that list...
5.) The american government version is at 18, when one suddenly becomes 100% responsible for their actions.
I mean think about it, a soul knows good and evil, but the state decides you don't REALLY know this completely till you're a legal adult
5.) The american government version is at 18, when one suddenly becomes 100% responsible for their actions.
I mean think about it, a soul knows good and evil, but the state decides you don't REALLY know this completely till you're a legal adult
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And, thus, the "soul" initiates when the body first develops a functioning, sentient brain, which regulates and emanates those electric pulses.
when does this happen? The fetus is how old?
Jeez, that was the best pun I ever wrote or said - you people I deem no longer worthy.
no
the symptom of the soul is life
if there is no soul to enter into an ovum, it doesn't make it to the stage of even being a zygote
Could you expand on that?
I like the sound of it but I'm not sure what you mean.
LG,
What is a soul?
A bacterium is alive - does it then have a soul?
If souls "enter" a living organism where do these souls come from?
Is there an infinite supply of souls and what are they doing while waiting for physical form?
If there is a finite supply would that mean that at some point a person could be born without a soul, and what would that mean?
If these questions seem daft then that is because they are. The soul concept is simply pure nonsense.
Consciousness and self-awareness (you) are mainatained and generated by the brain. When the brain is irreparably damaged then you will cease to exist.
What function would a soul perform that a brain cannot?
Isn't the soul concept an unfortunate ignorant leftover from the times when the mechanism of neural networks had not been discovered? Up until then no one could imagine how emotions and thoughts could orignate other than something magical. It is surely time to put these silly ideas of a soul behind us and move on.
What do you mean by life?
What is a soul?
A bacterium is alive - does it then have a soul?
If souls "enter" a living organism where do these souls come from?
Is there an infinite supply of souls and what are they doing while waiting for physical form?
If there is a finite supply would that mean that at some point a person could be born without a soul, and what would that mean?
If these questions seem daft then that is because they are. The soul concept is simply pure nonsense.
Consciousness and self-awareness (you) are mainatained and generated by the brain. When the brain is irreparably damaged then you will cease to exist.
What function would a soul perform that a brain cannot?
Isn't the soul concept an unfortunate ignorant leftover from the times when the mechanism of neural networks had not been discovered? Up until then no one could imagine how emotions and thoughts could orignate other than something magical. It is surely time to put these silly ideas of a soul behind us and move on.