Could the human soul ever be scientifically detected? Could it even be weighed? Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinellil discuss a series of experiments that claimed to detect the departure of the soul at death, whether that's possible, and what other researchers have found.AI-powered
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Weighing the Soul? (Scientific evidence for the human soul? Spirit? Life after death?)
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
McDougal's Results With Dogs
In Catholic theology, it's understood that every lifeform has a soul. Vegetative souls let organisms live and grow and reproduce; rational souls let them have the gift of human-level reasoning. In episode 203 on Animal Afterlife, I looked at those arguments and concluded they weren't persuasive.
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