Knowledge will increase (Daniel 12:4)?

[Bill_II]

@Bill_II

Not if the soul and the mind are different things. Who said they were the same?

This is where the rabbit hole began. I was asking for an example of something which science can actually address. And you responded.

@1Cor15.54

Expand on this, it’s interesting. What I meant is that if consciousness were proven to have entirely material origins there would be no reason to think it survives that.

OK we were talking about the soul and mind and now you throw in consciousness. How does consciousness relate to the mind and soul? My point was simply science might address the question of the mind but is incapable of addressing the soul.

@1Cor15.54

the soul can subsist after bodily death

Which places the soul firmly outside the realm of science and is therefore not falsifiable.

@1Cor15.54

If strict materialism were actually demonstrated ( meaning that intellect, will, personal identity, and consciousness are entirely and solely produced by matter, and therefore necessarily cease at death ) then the immortality of the soul would be disproven.

Given science can not address “the immortality of the soul” it is safe.

@1Cor15.54

Sure, have a read

I thread I have not been following. While you say what your theory isn’t, it is hard to tell what your theory actually is.

@1Cor15.54

Ola Hössjer and Ann Gauger write that “The problem of inferring history from genetic data is complex and underdetermined; there are many possible scenarios that would explain the same data,” and they add: “We show that a single-couple origin of humanity as recent as 500kya is consistent with data.”

Given behavioral modernity in Homo sapiens is generally dated to roughly 100,000 years ago this is definitely not any kind of fit for the Genesis narration.