DOUGBarbara Fitzpatrick wrote:Doug - lightening has been around for longer than human beings, and humans have been around for somewhere around a million years. The mechanism has only been figured out within the last couple of centuries. I don't expect grant funding for soul searching anytime soon. I just want to keep the possibility open - and consider the on-going desire for the existence of a soul to be the best guarantee that the possibility WILL be kept open.
The best guarantee is that science is kept honest by its cutthroat way of doing business. Proving other scientists wrong or discovering something new is the best way to become famous in science. If there is ever evidence for a soul, you can bet some scientist will pounce on it.
Just as if there is any evidence for leprechauns, science will be all over it. But don't hold your breath.
"The on-going desire for the existence of a soul" in the absence of a reason to think there is a soul is only a good guarantee that funding will be wasted. Just look at the millions wasted in ESP research when NO evidence was ever found, over the course of decades, to suggest that there ever was any such thing. And the waste of money in that area continues to this day.