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Hi, Jeanie!

You seem to be inferring that atheists and evolutionists fall into one category -- or at the very least share parallel beliefs. I don't find this to be true at all. Evolution no more invalidates religion than does gravity. Evolution could very well be the method of creation with which one's god or gods chooses to employ. I don't see any reason why evolution and religion oppose one another. Not for one second. Consequently, I don't see why even the "strictest" of evolutionists can't be, for example, a devout Christian or Shinto. And that should be all the answer one needs as regards their thoughts on the concept of spirits and the soul.


Pwcca, Jeanie was just wondering about what people would believe in, whether they were atheist or strict evolutionist, if they didn't believe in the soul. I don't think she was trying to lump everyone together at all, just curious about how other people cope with life if they didn't believe in a higher purpose.

As someone who didn't believe in souls/god earlier in life and I do believe in them now, I do realize that my life lacked a lot of meaning about the after death part. I believed before that dying was just like a deep sleep you never woke up from. Needless to say if I believed that when I became very mercury toxic I would have just killed myself because the prospect of sleeping forever doesn't sound that bad.