Thank you, Charlotte, for your comment and feedback in the comment section beneath the collection of articles here:
I received a similar question separately from a friend in a WhatApp group that reads:
"I have been reading your blog articles especially about life and the soul with great interest
Now I am wondering if it would be better to have a soul or not to have one, and our purpose of living here with or without one? I wonder if others have any ideas? "
Thank you to both of you for asking, causing me to “wonder” how best to reply to both of you in the same nutshell.
My brief answer below this dotted line.
jb
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Precisely. Many scientists, but not all, may think a body may not have a soul because they cannot detect it, let alone measure their presence. As scientists we are trained with a mindset that anything we cannot detect, see or measure do not exist. After all, science is described as a systematic study of matter and energy.
Yet there are lots of theoretical scientists and physicists such as Albert Einstein, Werner Karl Heisenberg, Wolfgang Ernst Pauli, Stephen William Hawking, and other great scientific minds who were able to make unprecedented ground-breaking scientific discoveries just by using theories, thinking, scientific logic, observations or merely through mathematical models without detecting or measuring anything.
The problem with us scientists is, we need evidence-based observations and measurements to believe, and yet we know there are countless worlds out there in the Universe outside ours we cannot see, discover or measure.
Astronomers know they exist not just in a few million, but worlds out there are like sands in a seashore to the tune of at least 100 trillion, trillion (1 followed by 26 zeros).
Are we saying they are all sterile, devoid of any life, without any physical or spiritual beings out there, seen and unseen? We can’t be that arrogant and self-important, can we? If we understand and have studied statistics as we do before we conduct medical and biomedical research, we understand the meaning of “chance and probably” even if it is a chance in a million or billion
We need to ask ourselves how inanimate molecules in the air, soil and environment could mysteriously creep and come together to become alive, to be able to move, feed on their own, reproduce themselves, respire, respond to stimuli. etc as given in the definition of life to become something that is living without “something” else external controlling their movements and behaviours?
Then almost unexpectedly they die leaving all those molecules to return to the soil or as ash as they no longer have “something’ controlling them (biomolecules)?
Astronomers tell us we are made from stardust since most of the elements of our bodies were formed in stars over the course of billions of years from multiple cycles of birth and death of stars or through the Big Bang during the creation of the universe and earth or through a supernova explosion of a massive star. Here is one explanation:
https://www.space.com/35276-humans-made-of-stardust-galaxy-life-elements.html
It was the elements in the soil from star dusts that God made man and He blew into his nostrils the breath of life (soul) that man became a living soul (Genesis 2:7).
In other words, no physical life can exist without the breath of God in it. His breath is our soul that directs all the chemistries of life and their physiological functions, and if our soul flies away, all life, their chemistries, orderly biochemical pathways without any metabolic collision at inter-junctions, instantly stop. Death ensures, and bacteria takes over.
I have explained that in my articles in reasonable details and at length, and also how life began to spread over the surface of this earth like the first lamp of life being lit, then transferred from one unlit lamp to the next in a chain reaction like wildfire in evolution which is also my area of understanding at Cambridge
Thank you for your thoughts and opinion once again. I appreciate it
Lim ju boo
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