But positing a soul doesn't actually explain anything. It's an empty placeholder for an explanation - Edit 1
Before modification by Burr at 14/09/2009 07:48:42 PM
Science at least provides a partial explanation of the unknown by describing the boundaries of what we know. If you say the soul is whatever human qualities haven't yet been discovered by science, then the soul theory is falsified every time a scientific discovery about humanity is made.