The Mind is Immaterial, Spirit exists

1. German scientists Hans Helmut Kornhuber and L"der Deecke discovered a phenomenon they called "bereitschaftspotential", German for "readiness potential." Their discovery, that the brain enters into a special state immediately prior to conscious awareness, set off an entirely new subfield. They asked their subjects to move their fingers, Kornhuber and Deecke's electroencephalogram (EEG) scans showed a slow negative potential shift in the activity of the motor cortex just slightly prior to the voluntary movement. They had no choice but to conclude that the unconscious mind was initiating a freely voluntary act. Benjamin Libet in the 1980s reinforced this. Libet had his participants move their fingers, but this time while watching a clock with a dot circling around it. His data showed that the readiness potential started about 0.35 seconds earlier than participants' reported conscious awareness. Modern Scientists have figured this out too: John-Dylan Haynes in 2008 showed a similar effect to the one revealed by Libet. After putting participants into an fMRI scanner, he told them to press a button with either their right or left index fingers at their leisure, but that they had to remember the letter that was showing on the screen at the precise moment they were committed to their movement. Haynes's data showed that the BP occurred one entire second prior to conscious awareness and at other times as much as ten seconds. He said the delay was due to the operation of a network of high-level control areas that were preparing for an upcoming decision long before it entered into conscious awareness. Basically, the brain starts to unconsciously churn in preparation of a decision, and once a set of conditions are met, awareness kicks in, and the movement is made. Conciousness is the ability to be aware of your surrondings, not the ability to decided what to do freely. You can be controlled but still aware of your surrondings. 2. The brain is not just a piece of meat, it is a complex system of storage units and neurons able to store and collect date, inerpret data and respond throughout the body. 3. Rape is NOT advantageous to the species. In humans, altruism and intelligence prevail and thats what natural selection promotes. However, for reproduction, rape has too many risk factors. The rapist would have to choose someone of reproduction age, a woman who will raise the child even after the rape and would not put the rapist in dange of attack. Obviously the risk factors are much higher and less altruistic than to find a consenting mate who will not increase risk of attack to the person and will most likely, take care of the child. 4. They are regenerating not dying and regenerating at a rapid pace. Thats the regeneration of brain cells and new brain cells through age. They do not undergo regular, normal, rapid death and seperation. 5. It is a different boat that runs the same, operates the same and feels the same. The cell will operate in the exact same way because it is an exact copy. My hand and your hand are not identical, you have different skin, different cells, different pigmentation, different sweat glands, different oil glands etc. Black is the absence of color, Black is whatever you see when there is no light or no color. No one sees blue and another green, unless one has a defect causing them to see that. "the question is illogical, we do not know nor does it matter how it works, all we need to know is that it does not work." Doesn't work like that bud. We can conclude that thoughts are material considering they are restricted by material objects and rest in a material object. 6. It is not mindless matter, it is the mind of the matter. It's made up of memories stored and saved that produce chemical cues. Study the brain. 7. MY argument is not refuted. Your complete lack of biology and nerves do not refute my argument. I already explained how you can feel your hand. 8. Josephus: Wrote about Jesus in 93-94 AD. Jesus died in 30AD. This passage is also been shown to conclusively to have been tampered with. Tacitus: second-century Roman writer who alleged that Christ had been executed by sentence of Pontius Pilate, is likewise cited by Righi. Written some time after 117 C.E., Tacitus' claim is more of the same late, second-hand "history." There is no mention of "Jesus," only "the sect known as Christians" living in Rome being persecuted, and "their founder, one Christus." Tacitus claims no first-hand knowledge of Christianity. No historical evidence exists that Nero persecuted Christians--Nero did persecute Jews, so perhaps Tacitus was confused. There was certainly not a "great crowd" of Christians in Rome around 60 C.E., as Tacitus put it, and, most damning, the term "Christian" was not even in use in the first century. No one in the second century ever quoted this passage of Tacitus. In fact, it appears almost word-for-word in the fourth-century writings of Sulpicius Severus, where it is mixed with other obvious myths. Citing Tacitus, therefore, is highly suspect and adds virtually nothing to the evidence for a historical Jesus. Pliny: there is no mention jesus and only relies on what other people believe, not historical. The Talmus was a result of oral tradition, overruled. Gaius Suetonius Tranquillas: English Version: As the Jews were making constant disturbances at the instigation of Chrestus, he expelled them from Rome. Pre-ferred Latin Sentence: Iudaeos impulsore Christo assidue tumultuantis Roma expulit. The Original Latin: Iudaeos impulsore Chresto assidue tumultuantis Roma expulit. Chresto means good and righteous. This is important because Chresto was used to describe pagan people, deities, oracles and philosophers. Socrates got this title: Socrates the Chrestos. Is Socrates a god? No. So Gaius Suetonius Tranquillas most likely meant good figure not messiah. Ahh..The Gospels! Mathew, Mark and Luke were not written by apostles, they didn't directly observe Jesus. The earliest gospel was Mark's which was written in 70AD, fourty years after Jesus' death. Karen Armstrong writes in her book 'The History of God': "We know very little about Jesus. The first full-length account of his life was St.Mark's gospel, which was not written until the year 70, some forty years after his death. By that time, historical facts had been overlaid with mythical elements, which expresssed the meaning Jesus had acquired for his followers. It is this meaning that St.Mark primarily conveys rather than a reliable straightforward portrayal." Mark's Gospel: 70 Luke's Gospel: 80 John's Gospel 90 Gospels written 40-60 years after Jesus' death. They don't agree and often contradict each other. They just aren't a reliable source of information. Besides, Mathew doesn't even count because Matthew DIRECTLY copied Mark's gospel. Yes, if Jesus existed, it would be very resonable to assume he was crucified considering it was the form of punnishment back then.