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That you have a soul worth is now validated scientifically. Medical science has confirmed you have a consciousness separate from your body20 in that: No stimulus to the brain can make you believe or decide anything. Stimuli to the brain can cause memories to play back or muscles to contract; however, these are perceived by the patients as external to their conscious “self”. There is no centralizing section of the brain that unifies your memories and the input/output sections. What you think about can physically affect your health, (for every effect there must be a cause; and if not your soul, there is nothing that could be causing positive or negative health effects). Evidence from near death experiences denote conscious activity even during period of no brain activity; however, the amount of data is limited. Certain experiments have shown a delay in the awareness of a specific stimulation after the signals reached the brain. Another experiment quantified a delay between a mental command and a response within the brain. Also, argument for the existence of your soul can be made from the following compelling lines of reasoning: You have free will. Your brain consists of nothing but matter, and for a given system of matter and conditions, has no options or free will; therefore, something separate from your physical brain, (your soul), must “cause” your free will. If there is no soul, you really do not have free will, and you are just a special configuration of atoms. Most of the molecules in your change out every couple of months. You would cease to be you, (you would be someone different), if there was no soul that provides continuity and remains “you” while your brain is constantly changing out. Said another way, some people have lost most of their memories and even half of their brain, yet we don’t think of those people as loosing half or more of who they are because their soul provides continuity. Scientists have not been able to directly qualify characteristics of someone’s soul, yet you still believe in yourself. If you do not have a soul, you do not exist. So if we have souls and our Creator is fair, then how can evil exist if everything our Creator has made is good? .................
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