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

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[–] ritswd@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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@lemmings.world 1 points 2 years ago

It's not inconclusive, it's improvable which basically means "why even bother?"