Is there any way to scientifically prove that people have a soul?
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Sort of. Science only disproves. So if we can disprove everything that would say that the body doesn't have a soul, then you've got proof.
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No proof of telepathy exists to date, as well as no proof of "gifted" people in doing whatever paranormal task.\nThis is not my personal opinion, it's a fact: the James Randi Educational Foundation is offering a prize of one million dollars (see reference) to anybody who is able to show any kind of paranormal ability. But nobody has ever retired the prize. Isn't this the best demonstration that all paranormal claims are false?\n\nLater addition about the 10% brain usage: this is a question that has been posed and answered many times in Yahoo!Answers. Again: there is *no evidence* that we use only 10% of our brains, this is a myth without scientific grounds, originated from a misquote of Albert Einstein or a misinterpretation of Pierre Flourens in the 1800s. See reference for more details.
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No they don`t. According to Bible only humans have souls. And unfortunately one needs soul to go to heaven. By the way I don`t believe there`s heaven. :D
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i believe that our souls can move on. i think that if someone has a out of body experience a soul can take over their body. when a baby is born and even into animals.
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SOUL is individual identity located in subconscious mind.It is also individual subconsciousness.It is present in self-awareness.\n\nntadepalli
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The soul is what evolves and matures. The body is only the shell the soul resides in. It has to be a complicated mechanized system to be as functional as it is.\nWhy? Scientists can't ansewer that question because it's not a science question, and becuase it's an answer God hasn't allowed us to discover yet.
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Actually, there is evidence that the 'soul' has a weight.\n\n21 grams ... see link below.
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The human Soul is the result of the Spirit entity dwells in the human corporeal body. The spirit being shall lives in the corporeal body only when there is continuance of the existence of chemical compound reactions in the body, such as availability of energy, radiation, blood flows, etc.\n\nNormally after a person is proclaim to be death, its internal organ or brain still carry some activity but at very minimal level, thus there is some sort of chemical compound activity such as heat dissipated from the body and temperature drops down, then some muscles become tense.
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Quantum mechanics is a model for understanding and predicting subatomic phenomena.  It has little use in our macro world of human dimensions.\n\nI believe the soul is in the intricate workings of the developed brain, which comes from the DNA instructions which include the development of the pre-frontal lobe, but do those instructions themselves, unacted on, without having built a brain, constitute a soul?
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there is no scientific proof as far as i know that soul really does exist.but many philosophers have plausible arguments in support of the existence of the soul.as far as our energy is concerned it simply changes form and gets converted to heat energy,chemical energy etc.
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Yes I do, but as for showing proof how would you do that it would be kind of like proving that there is or is not a god.
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well if you have to have a soul to be able to have feelings it is possible,\nthey certainly got auras that can be seen by some people normally and by others who have taken mushrooms.\n\nAnd some believe that the soul resides in the electrical field of the aura\n\nINTELIGENCE\na eucaliptus tree when it is being attacked by a cater piller sends mesages via feramones trough the air which are picked up by similar trees often many miles away.\nwhen the caterpillars reach this tree it is ready for them and kills them with a poisen ,that it has develloped in the meantime and secretes trough its leaves. \nPAIN\nPlants belonging to people with green fingers ,who talk to their plants ,are proven to do better.\n\nThere once was a famouse experiment,wherby 7 people walked into a room where there was a big plant,that was wired up to a lie detector.\nOne of the people had a knife and cut some parts of the plant.\nthen later when the péople were brought before the plant again,the lie detector gave a violent leap in its readings ,when the person with the knife was brought before it.\nthe same experiment was done with trees and in all cases the same result.\n\nNorth american indians dance around a tree singing that they are going to kill it,than quickly they turn around and chop down its neighbour,this indicates that they believe the tree has fellings or a spirit.\n\nyou make up your own mind if there is more to trees than meets the eye
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Not sure how your other answerer knows whether animals have souls or not..............I'd like to think that all sentient beings have souls.\n\nHowever, ignoring philosophy, my view is that there is, in fact, very little distinction between a human and an animal. Mostly we all have the capacity to learn, mostly we all possess some semblance of intelligence, and mostly we run our lives according to the rules of some kind of hierarchical society.\n\nThe basic difference I believe is the humans capacity to communicate abstract thoughts via langauage. Although chimps and bonobos have displayed some capacity for this, in humans this is extremely highly developed and allows us to progress and develop very quickly without having to re-learn (ie. we don't re-invent the wheel every generation). It is this capacity that has allowed humans to outstrip other animals in our development towards (allegedly) "higher intelligence".\n\nSee the attached links for some arguments regarding this.
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There is no scientific evidence for souls.  Thus, they may very well not exist at all, like unicorns, fairies, and friendly Parisians.  Science does not address everything, and is not meant to answer all important questions.  Science only is effective in questions in which a clear hypothesis can be made, and repeatable evidence collected and measured to support or refute that hypothesis.  Questions such as the existence of God, what love is, what is beautiful, are not things that can be quantitated and measured, and thus science is not the proper venue to find the answer.
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a soul is an energy with a concience. \nthe human brain is born with latent(sleeping) memories.\n\nit is possible to make these latent memories come alive, but only in a sub concious state.\n\nbut the level of time and patient that requires......i dun think it's really that imp to know wat u were..try know wat u are now.......caus eas a fact.99.99% of the people really dun know who they are...................do u ??\n\ntry keep your mind away from this........occult and metamorphosis is not child's play...you can have serious problems if you meddle with the past. belive me.i have done the thing.\n\nit isn't worth spoiling your present to know the past........and  as for the future.well..........u can only be told wat can happen........not wat will.............destiny.man makes.............but fate he cannot escape from.\n\nbe happy be positive, discover youself..........but dun meddle with your soul.belive me.....do not try the occult like i did..........i did and now i can't get out...plz heed!
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There are instances where we have taken photograph of halos around a living being; such as using Kirlian photography method.\n\nIt is said all living being emits lights around themselves thus creating a halos, it changes in size, color and brightness constantly depend how we feel and think.  Most eastern practician such as Buddhism, Hindu, Taoist are able to see this light through medication and spiritual/mental training.\n\nHowever documenting and captures trails of soul is another matter.\n\nIn Buddhism, it is said that soul/spirit exist in another plane / dimension that co-exist with ours. They have soceity and bounds just like our soceity, their sense of time is also different than ours.  Approximately our sense of 1 month of time equals their 1 day.  Besides from that there are lost soul/spirit that did not make the transition to the other side and linger in our plane because they still reminisce their relatives or belonging, these spirits are the ghost that people sometimes see at night.\n\nThe soul resides in the body, Taoist believe its position is like a infant in a upside down position in your abdominal area in your stomach.  However, no science or experiment can confirm this finding/myth so far.\n\nScience today is still trying to make the breakthrough to understand these metaphysic events, although progress seems slow.  Most western religion belive these things can not be capture on film or scientificly quantify, because its God's work and is hidden from us for a reason.\n\nEither way, its still a big mistery...
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I like to think that you can still interact with other souls in the afterlife, if there is one... but I also wonder if our souls are just energy, and we just dissipate into nothingness when we die... but that can't be true, right? Otherwise this life would make no sense.