Chimp to Man Ethics

[Electric Sceptic]

50% of scientists are non-theists.

Please provide support for this claim.

When the human person dies, the body automatically loses significant weight.

Please provide support for this claim. To the best of my knowledge, it is an urban myth, long since falsified. Apart from anything else, the idea that this weight is the soul departing is absurd...why would a soul weigh anything?

 

[And-U-Say]

When the human person dies, the body automatically loses significant weight.
One may consider that this is actually the soul fleeting.
Furthermore, one must also consider Luke 23:43.

This is not true. The body does not lose weight on dieing. Where do you get this?

 

[Manic Depressive Mouse]

This is not true. The body does not lose weight on dieing. Where do you get this?

I thought it lost 21 grams...

 

[Big Rob]

Is it just me, or has Mathew not offered anything more than "Well... DIVINE INTERVENTION@$!$@!" as evidence for anything he's ever posted?

 

[Matthew777]

Please provide support for this claim.

http://www.religioustolerance.org/ev_publi.htm

As for the weight loss at death, my biology teacher agreed.

 

[Randall McNally]

As for the weight loss at death, my biology teacher agreed.

Well, this biology teacher does not. Shall your teacher and I have a duel for the soul's honor? Say, google searches at ten paces?

 

[Osiris]

When the human person dies, the body automatically loses significant weight.
One may consider that this is actually the soul fleeting.
Furthermore, one must also consider Luke 23:43.

There are two problems with this statement...

1. If you assume that the soul is fleeting therefore the body loses weight, then that would mean that the soul is made of 'matter'.

2. When I don't want my brother to lift me up, sometimes I force myself to stay on the ground. I don't stop him from lifting me up, I just make it harder for him. I don't know if you know what I am talking about, but I don't add extra pounds on myself, I still have the same body mass.

 

[FunkyBrother]

Mouse DNA is closer to human DNA than Chimp DNA

http://www.onesmallspeck.com/chapter%2012%20Chromosomes.html

It has nothing to do with evolution.

 

[Matthew777]

1. If you assume that the soul is fleeting therefore the body loses weight, then that would mean that the soul is made of 'matter'.

An immaterial body can have a physical presence.

 

[Matthew777]

It has nothing to do with evolution.

Shhhh, we don't want the evolutionists to catch on...

 

[Electric Sceptic]

http://www.religioustolerance.org/ev_publi.htm

Does not support your claim.

As for the weight loss at death, my biology teacher agreed.

So you, who are so eager to criticise and lambaste scientists, believe something solely because your biology teacher said it was true? Can you say 'double standard'?

Once again, I'll ask for support for this claim. As far as I can find, it's based on a series of very slipshod experiments performed by one person a hundred years ago.

 

[Matthew777]

Does not support your claim.

Look at the part where is shows the percentages for scientists.

 

[Matthew777]

As far as I can find, it's based on a series of very slipshod experiments performed by one person a hundred years ago.

Has anyone ever undertaken an alternative experiment to disprove it?

 

[Osiris]

An immaterial body can have a physical presence.

Sorry, but if it does have a physical presense, then the soul would be capable of being detected by science.

You are claiming that there is a soul. I really see no evidence and no need for a soul, our physical body does everything already without the aid of a soul.
Your claim that there is a soul is because we weigh more when we are alive, you know what else I think, that when we are sleep, we weigh less as well than when we are awake.

Edit: or perhaps is the other way around now that I think of it....

 

[Randall McNally]

Mouse DNA is closer to human DNA than Chimp DNA

http://www.onesmallspeck.com/chapter%2012%20Chromosomes.html

It has nothing to do with evolution.

Watch this:

*handwave*

See that? That's how easily I can dismiss the counterintuitive claims made on that website. Know why? 'Cause they provide exactly zero citations to support their assertions.

Seeing as that page is a segment of the full chapter in the book, I will withhold absolute judgment until it can be determined if there is any additional info.

 

[Electric Sceptic]

Look at the part where is shows the percentages for scientists.

I did.

Has anyone ever undertaken an alternative experiment to disprove it?

Of course not. Why bother? The very idea is ludicrous (the idea that a soul is material), and there's virtually no evidence to support it.

 

[madarab]

There is more to being "human" than just having our DNA. The cultural side of it is at least as important as the genetic component. This is clear when you examine the numerous cases of children who are raised from an early age by animals. Even when they are rescued as older children, they never develop the hallmark traits of humanity and can only be considered "human" in a genetic sense.

I'd like to make something very, very clear in this post before some idiot here decides to spout off some stupid accusation that I'm indirectly advocating genocide or some of the uglier forms of cultural imperialism against people of other cultures. All human cultures have in common complex tool use, art, symbolic language and their own well-defined concepts of moral norms. All of these traits are noticably absent among humans who are raised by animals from a very young age.

 

[Nathan Poe]

There is more to being "human" than just having our DNA. The cultural side of it is at least as important as the genetic component. This is clear when you examine the numerous cases of children who are raised from an early age by animals. Even when they are rescued as older children, they never develop the hallmark traits of humanity and can only be considered "human" in a genetic sense.

I'm personally aware of Mowgli, Tarzan, and George of the Jungle. Can you post some real cases of this? I'm curious about this...

Watch out for that tree!

 

[Grengor]

http://www.feralchildren.com/en/index.php, WOW!

 

[Matthew777]

The very idea is ludicrous (the idea that a soul is material), and there's virtually no evidence to support it.

An immaterial object can have a physical presence. Have you seen the wind?