More on ‘Whatever Happened to the Soul?’

In yesterday’s blog, I show that the ‘Decade of the Brain,’ designated by the US government in 1989, failed. This failure shows that all scientific proofs of God must be considered.

Accordingly, the 1998 book mentioned in yesterday’s blog and my book should be considered by the US government as a point of departure for a new basic research project in the USA. This project would be a joint effort of the fields of theology and science. This effort will be successful and will unify many religions worldwide and the fields of theology and science.

Guided by Chapter 1 of the 1998 book, I identify ways that humans are currently defining the nature of a human 'thing.' Such a thing is also known as a ‘person.’ These different ways are as follows:

1. Eliminated/Reductive Materialism: A person that has no soul and it thus a purely physical thing that can be explained only by physical laws. (The way of atheism.)
2. Radical Dualism: A person is a free spiritual thing, which if united with a physical thing, adds spiritual aspects to this physical thing. (The way of many religions)
3. Holistic Dualism: A person is a whole that has a soul part and body parts. These different parts are naturally harmonious, are infinite in number, and allow for incarnation, resurrection and reincarnation (The way proposed in my book)
4. Nonreductive Physicialism: A person is a physical organism whose complex functioning, both in society and in relation to God, gives rise to ‘higher’ human capacities such as morality and spirituality. (The way proposed in the 1998 book)

It is clear to me that scientific and theological decisions and many other decisions of the US government have been very poor over the last forty years. The US government must change radically if the USA is to be saved from a civil war.