If you do, then what exactly defines a soul in your view?

  • Rikudou_Sage
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    41 year ago

    And it’s common belief of theists that everyone has to believe in something. I don’t believe in anything. I believe people, like the scientists that discover stuff, but that’s believing someone, not in something. Pretending it’s the same is ridiculous.

    • @ritswd
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      1 year ago

      I don’t know if that’s what you were implying, but I’m not at all a theist. And as a scientist, I can remind you that the scientific method is to keep researching topics that are inconclusive. To conclude something as non-existent because the research is inconclusive is not the scientific method.

      What you are doing is listening to the science indeed, and drawing faith-based conclusions that something doesn’t exist because it wasn’t proven to exist. Which is fine, a lot of people do that to base all kinds of faiths, but it’s disingenuous to pretend that you’re not.

      • Rikudou_Sage
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        21 year ago

        It’s not inconclusive, it’s improvable which basically means “why even bother?”

        • @ritswd
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          I don’t disagree with “why even bother”. But again following the scientific method, it wasn’t proven to be improvable. Scientifically speaking, we just don’t know.

          I realize it’s not a very comforting thought, though. And I don’t mind people who believe otherwise.

          • Rikudou_Sage
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            21 year ago

            it wasn’t proven to be improvable

            If it’s something invisible with no physical manifestation (as the soul is thought to be by the believers), it’s quite literally improvable.