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    Creationists: Please, I need to hear you say it.

    Wow... Just wow...
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    Creationists: Please, I need to hear you say it.

    Correct me if I'm wrong but I think there's quite a bit of evidence that much of human evolution occurred in an equatorial or tropical kind of environment. It certainly explains some things such as the reason we lost our hair and the reason we walk upright (much better ventilation for our heads).
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    I now know why there are YECists, literalists, and fundamentalists...

    That comment holds no weight in this thread. This thread was not a debate over which is true. Presenting evidence would be off-topic and a distraction from Aeroz's main point. If you want evidence, demand it in a separate thread.
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    I don't believe in right and wrong.

    What do you mean? What would happen if Zoot "acted upon his thoughts" rather than his feelings? I don't want idle speculation here; I want a human action that will logically follow from a belief in subjective morality. Hint: you will find this extremely difficult. We act on our feelings: our...
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    Evolutionary purpose of the soul?

    No. At least not by what I mean by experience. Like I said, I think this is a language limitation. Nonetheless, I still don't understand why you haven't gotten what I meant. Perhaps I'm just awful at trying to convey something like this. I haven't seen a single reply from anyone indicating that...
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    Evolutionary purpose of the soul?

    Experience of self. I know that's not satisfactory, but that's the best term I can use to describe it. I still can't understand why you seem to have no idea what I'm talking about, and I have to go in circles finding words to describe it. Note though that I do not consider this difficulty to...
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    Evolutionary purpose of the soul?

    Close, but not quite. The brain can know that it is processing without the soul. It can take itself into account when making decisions. The soul is the experience of it all. Nothing more. Huh? Obviously it can. Remember I am not a creationist, nor am I religious at all. I am sort of a...
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    Evolutionary purpose of the soul?

    I find this argument lacking. I don't see a necessary logical connection between the last sentence of your second paragraph, and the first sentence of your third. The detection of oneself, or self-awareness, is not exactly the same thing as consciousness. Dennett's zimboes could be fully aware...
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    Evolutionary purpose of the soul?

    But it isn't! I would say that you are in denial of your own consciousness. To me it's plain as day. It doesn't look like this subject is going anywhere though.
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    Evolutionary purpose of the soul?

    NamesAreHardToPick, you did it too! Arrggh!
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    Evolutionary purpose of the soul?

    Okay, for the last time, I defined soul in my original post. TheUndeadFish, under my operating definition, the soul is what you are terming "the imagination of the concept of the soul". How come whenever I try to discuss this concept, no one seems to have any idea what I'm talking about? Am I...
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    Evolutionary purpose of the soul?

    You misunderstand me. I did not claim that a "thing" such as the soul exists. In fact, I defined "soul" in my post to be the perceived "ghost" in the body (key word perceived, i.e. apparent, not necessarily an actual thing). And in fact I was assuming it came from the higher functions of the...
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    Evolutionary purpose of the soul?

    This might not belong in this forum because it's not really an argument, but a question of curiosity posed to my fellow "evolutionists" (to use the creationists' term for those of us who put stock in science). I'm wondering what the purpose of the soul is. By soul I mean that "experiencer"...
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    Hurricanes and Evolution

    Indeed! Actually, I have a funny story about that. I live in Orlando, and a couple days ago, in our newspaper The Orlando Sentinel, governor Jeb Bush was quoted as saying that there's nothing we can do about all these hurricanes and the best we can do is pray, and that he himself planned on...
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    Hurricanes and Evolution

    Thank you funyun. nyjbarnes, with your automatic defenses you have read my post completely wrong. I was not posting evidence for evolution, but was destroying the creationist argument that complexity can't arise on its own.
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