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Can a Soul Animate the Body?
Advanced Google Gemini and I Wrestle with this Question.
19 min readAug 30, 2024
I was watching a YouTube video with an atheist panel for a call in show having a theistic caller. The caller was arguing for a soul animating the body. The hosts wanted him to demonstrate the existence of the soul, which he could not do. But, then he wanted to argue for it animating the body. The hosts wanted to know what the mechanism was for an immaterial soul to interact with the material body? The caller could put forth no mechanism. The caller wanted to assert the existence of the soul and assert it animated the body. But, the hosts would not let him slide on that. It was a long and exhausting call.
This sounds like a classic debate between theists and atheists, where the core disagreement lies in the existence of the soul and its role in animating the body.
The theist caller’s inability to provide evidence or a mechanism for the soul’s…