There is one thing that puzzles me about atheist's non-belief.?

[Coco]

I noticed that some of them say that people have no souls. I don't get this. What do they think animates us? I don't mean to be rude, but I am curious as to what atheists call the thing that makes them uniquely them, (Man, this is so awkward.)

I can understand how atheists don't believe in God, but life itself...that's kind of...am I wrong here? Is there some leap in logic that I have missed?

[☺ּҢξřξ†ıςּ]

Its all about *personality*.

[iMaTwin]

Your question shows, you know something bigger is out there, a creator. that we cannot possible be an accident of molecules. as for the athiest, satan covers their eyes and ears so that they dont see or hear. yours arent covered. good question, keep asking,

[tellytimmy]

i am an athiest however i do believe in the soul it is the very thing that makes us what we are the very escence of our being without it we would be no more than lifeless blobs of flesh and blood but also on that note it doesn't mean that they have to be controlled by one central system (god) in order for them to work correctly and such

[Nandina]

What's life? Life’s easy. A quirk of matter. Nature’s way of keeping meat fresh. Doesn't need to be supernatural.

Here's a question back for you - if people have souls because that's what animates us, then why do some Christians (and other religions) believe that animals DON'T have souls? What animates them? Do ants have souls? What animates them, if they don't?

Do trees have souls? They're alive and they grow, albeit a lot slower than people do. What about grass? The sunflower that turns in order to follow the sun? What about a Venus Fly Trap? What animates them?

[wondermus]

A 'soul' does not answer the question 'what makes us us', it merely attempts to relegate the question to the domain of that which can not be answered.

What animates us? Energy.

[~*~*Pretty Poison*~*~]

I'm actually on the fence about the soul thing. It is, at it's most basic form, neurons and electrical impulses and chemicals that animate us. But it's the other stuff, like what makes me me and not my mother, that I don't understand.

[Preys Jesus]

We have brains and nervous systems.

[simon T]

The unique wiring of my brain makes me me.


Where is any evidence for a soul? Where does it reside? Where does it touch the physical brain? Why is it that if we physically damage parts of our cortex that our personality changes if we have a separate soul? How do mood and personality altering drugs affect the soul?


Just because you can not understand how simple neural connections can form into as complex a organ as the human brain and produce a human personality - does not mean that there must be a deus-ex-machina controlling it.

Hundreds of years ago when the microscope was invented people looked at sperm cells. What they saw was the shape of a man in the cell. Because they knew that there had to be someone in there controlling it.

They were wrong. Do not make the same mistake.

[Candace M]

The reason Atheists believe people have no souls is because there is no science to back up the presence of a soul in someone.

Soul does not equal personality.

[rapstar]

Science is logic....try to document you more....borrow some biology books from the library...you will learn that in this world tht there is no magic but science