[Ichneumon]

So your answer is that the soul and spirit do not exist?

No, that's not my answer. I was pointing out the folly of attacking the science for not dealing with two things that you can't even demonstrate even exist in the first place, at least in the manner you assert.

I don't claim that they do or don't exist. But if you're going to take science to task for not dealing with them, you'd better be able to show that there's really something that needs to be dealt with. Otherwise *you're* the one who is more open to charges of "cocky authority" than those whom you accuse.

Do you know what is the generally accepted idea of what the soul is?

I know several, and I know that there actually is no "generally accepted idea" of what it is. Ask ten people, you'll get eleven different answers.

Feel free to describe your idea of it, though.

[Navydog]

"I don't claim that they do or don't exist. But if you're going to take science to task for not dealing with them, you'd better be able to show that there's really something that needs to be dealt with."

For one thing, according to science, energy cannot be destroyed or created. Surely you can't deny that life in the body is energy. That energy had to come from somewhere since it cannot be spontaneously created.