Recent content by docbob

You are correct that I am capable of thinking in much more complex terms, and that I do not NEED to suppose there is a God who wants or needs anything from me. However, I've also understood that a greater complexity of a thought does NOT necessarily imply greater right-ness or true-ness...

Verty, Thanks for keeping me honest. However, in my own defense I think you should read my comments in their context (i.e., the concept of a soul). I am aware of only a few books on evolution that attempt to address the expression of emotions in animals (other than humans), but more may...

I imagine we agree that it is very difficult to know what animals are thinking and/or what the motivation for their behavior might be. And, while your example of the goats makes a lot of sense to me, the behavior of other animals during the rutting season makes one wonder just what, if...

The basic question in both quotations above appears to be this, "If, or given that, the soul appears to be 'centered' in, or has a direct connection to, the brain, where would one logically draw the distinction between those creatures which have a brain and a soul, and those with a brain (or...

I did not try to go very far into the question of God's existence for a number of reasons. The main one being that the original question really centered on a person's acceptance of their religion. Beside that, I honestly don't know how, or when, or why, and even if circumstances in my life...

The terms "religious" and "religion" appear to mean different things in past posts depending on the context of each. In certain cases, those terms have referred to a specific religious sect (i.e., the religion of Christianity or Islam, and "religious people" as Christians or Muslims). In other...

You ask, "Why do religious people accept their religion the way they do?", and then describe a number of situations which YOU "believe" to be THEIR beliefs. To say "they do nothing bad at all for their whole life, some haven't even touched a beer, haven't experienced sex, weed...", it suggests...

I'd like to call for a "Do Over". My last paragraph was not really clear. It should have read... ...So you see, while I readily admit the concept of the individual soul to be true, the concept which I have in mind does NOT lead me to conclude that "there is one collective soul", or to...

Chaos' lil bro Order has certainly raised some interesting issues. Here are a couple of thoughts that come to mind. I am one of those that believes each individual has a soul; by which I mean that every human has, at some level and in some capacity, a mind, a will, and emotions. However...

Your question seems to be based on the premise that a hopeful view of heaven would logically lead a person to sit passively by and let injuries go untreated or nature run its course. Obviously, this is an incorrect premise, evidenced by the fact that hundreds of thousands of doctors PRACTICE...

I seems like the concept of the soul and spirit are being used interchangeably here, but I'm not certain that the two are the same. The concept of the "spirit" is ancient, and has generally been thought of as something akin to "wind" or "breath". That is, something that was invisible, yet...