But positing a soul (as a substance) doesn't actually explain anything. - Edit 2
Before modification by Burr at 14/09/2009 07:59:49 PM
It's an empty placeholder for an explanation. 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.