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Originally Posted by Judas Iscariot

Obviously. That's just what science is. An ever improving, ever critical venture into trying to understand. Look how much it has advanced in the last one hundred years alone. We are learning more and more about ourselves and the cosmos we inhabit. That is only going to continue. Whereas you can sit cross legged for eternity trying to figure out your 'soul', an indescribable idea based on nothing more than the lovey dovey, admittedly romantic assumption of 'I reckon I have a soul, I do'.

Science is working on our creation right now, and has been for quiet some time. We know quiet a bit about the mind as it is .

Not really. And science is very rigid when it concerns certain areas of humanity, focusing on the materialistic and physical rather than trying to explore other avenues of thought. Sometimes scientists can be very arrogant about their assumptions - exhibit A, Richard Dawkins.

I'm not disputing the fact that science has had a profound influence on our lives and how we lead them, but it doesn't hold the answers right now to why we are as we are right now or why we abandoned our basic animal needs and became altruistic/compassionate in nature. I find that whole area so fascinating, as well as psychokinesis, near death experiences and how spirituality came into our lives. They can't explain it yet, or at least when they try to it doesn't really do it for me.