[Windflier]

What is really happening right now, is the attempt to understand the universe through “reverse engineering”. Reverse engineering the universe, will not answer the questions of “WHO”, or why, about its creation. The engineering of the universe, started with something that cannot be reverse engineered.

Brilliant insight, Adorno. I happen to agree with you completely.

Scientists are also busy reverse engineering the human brain, which some of them believe will result in the final explanation that the human personality is simply a meat computer that is somehow self aware.

I suggest that (for the near term, at least) they'll discover the 'What', and 'How', but not the 'Who', or 'Why'. In time, they'll discover that the human personality is not the computer. There is an operator.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Classic Judeo-Christian theology posits the existence of a soul for humans, and hints that it may even be possible for some animals. If there are “soulons” that can interact with ordinary matter, they probably will be something that can never be found in supercolliders. “Soulons” would be possessed of a will and thus be able to defy the physical sciences.