A Science Myth of The Soul

Work Cited

“Ancient Egyptian concept the soul” December 2011, Oct 20, 2012 Web http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egyptian_concept_of_the_soul

by Dave Oester:  Oct 20, 2012 Web http://www.ghostweb.com/soul.html

“Albert Einstein” Column for The New York Times, Nov. 9, 1930 (reprinted in The New York Times obituary, April 19, 1955) Oct 20, 2012 Web http://ffrf.org/news/day/dayitems/item/14253-albert-einstein

A Science Myth of The Soul

Conclusion

Personally, I believe that our brains and our brain only control our actions and thoughts. “I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms.” Albert Einstein, obituary in New York Times, April 19, 1955.
“Albert Einstein” Column for The New York Times, Nov. 9, 1930 (reprinted in The New York Times obituary, April 19, 1955) Oct 20, 2012 Webhttp://ffrf.org/news/day/dayitems/item/14253-albert-einstein

A Science Myth of The Soul

Evidence

What about the belief in Far East? The Hinduism contains many variant beliefs on the origins, purposes, and fate of the souls. "For the soul there is neither birth nor death at any time. He has not come into being, does not come into being, and will not come into being. He is unborn, eternal, ever – existing and primeval. He is not slain when the body is slain." (Srila Prabhupada). In Islam, the soul is immortal and eternal. What a person does in this life is recorded and will be judged by God.

But do we really have souls? Scientifically speaking, there have been numerous experiments to test if we, the human have soul or not. Most famous one would be the experiment by Dr. Duncan MacDougall, in 1907. He made weight measurements of patients as they died. He claimed that there was weight loss of varying amounts at the time of death. His results have never been reproduced, and was generally regarded either as meaningless or considered to have had little if any scientific merit. Nonetheless, he measured out of six times in his experiment that whenever a person dies, he or she would lost 21 grams, and he claimed that it is the weight of the soul that departs the body. But he did not take into account that the heart stops working so there is no blood stream movements in a human body as well as the temperature drop could affect greatly the total weight of the body.
by Dave Oester:  Oct 20, 2012 Web http://www.ghostweb.com/soul.html

A Science Myth of The Soul

Stories

In modern religious like Judaism, there is always the mention of souls. They believe that souls, or spirits, are given by god to the human by his or her first breath. Unlike Buddhism however, the Judaism doesn’t believe in life after death. They believe that all soul would return to god after a person passed away. Or in Catholic, the soul of every one of us after we passed away will be judged by god, and live an eternity after in Heaven or Hell. There is uncertainty among different branches of Christian that at which point of a human life that he, or she acquired soul, hence the idea that abortion is illegal. There are many different believes in Catholic at who or what create souls, some believes that God creates them. Some believes that the parents do.
“Ancient Egyptian concept the soul” December 2011, Oct 20, 2012 Webhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egyptian_concept_of_the_soul

A Science Myth of The Soul

Background

Soul is view as a living essence inside any living things from human to animals, trees, and objects. In history, soul was mentions in almost every single culture and religion. As far back as pre-history, more than 4000BC, there has been the mention of souls. In Ancient Egypt, it is called the “Ba” and is defined as an aspect of a person that would live on after the body died. It is sometimes depicted as a human-headed bird flying out of the tomb after a person died. Buddhism believes that there is life after death and that every tree, rock have a soul in them. A human in this life can die and be reborn as an animal, or tree in the next life depend on his acts in the previous life, better known as karma.

“Ancient Egyptian concept the soul” December 2011, Oct 20, 2012 Webhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egyptian_concept_of_the_soul

A Science Myth of the Soul

Proposal

Does my dog Charlie have soul? Do serial killers and pedophile rapist have soul? Do any of us have soul? What is a soul exactly? Mythologically speaking, soul is what holding our thought, feeling inside our body and it defines the personality of each of us. But isn’t that our brain’s job? Is there really a soul inside each of us? or is it just a makeup term to explain the personality of human before we know that actually it’s the brains that control it.