Quote Originally Posted by harmonicminor
hey onieronaut,
modern physics still can't explain where our thoughts actually come from, or the method the brain uses to store memories.
Just because science can't explain something doesn't mean that it's supernatural. By that logic, people 100 years ago were perfectly correct in saying that earthquakes come from God because the science of the time couldn't explain it. And before that, lightning also had supernatural causes, because the physics hadn't come to understand that either. And so forth. As modern sciences advances our knowledge of the universe, the gaps where the God explanation still works narrow. There is no reason to think this process won't continue.

The fact is, we're making huge advances into understanding how the brain works. It's still an extremely complicated organ, the product of hundreds of millions of years of natural selection, but we're getting there. The reason we don't yet understand these things is because the brain is a notoriously tough thing to observe in action, and it is suited to so many tasks that its complexity means it will probably take a long long time before it is fully understood. If you want to posit the existence of a supernatural soul of some sort, I would like to see some evidence of that. Until I do, I can only accept the overwhelming wealth of evidence we have that the brain is the seat of consciousness.
before we are born we pick our life and then go live it. we know everything from time of birth and all the way to death. when we die we are just completing a script basically so why would big invisible hands interfere???
1) You do not provide any corroborating evidence for this idea.
2) If we choose our life before we're born, then there's no reason to feel sorry for the victims of the Holocaust or 9/11. After all, they picked that fate. In fact, there's no reason to feel sorry for anyone about anything. Compassion goes out the window. I can't imagine a loving God setting things up that way.