The existence of the immortal soul

Firstly I would like to address the beginning of your argument which is totally contradictory and therefore invalid. Firstly a quote from yourself "Consciousness, not just our own but other higher mammals are a composite illusion created by the HUMAN brain". According to this line of reasoning you are stating that the consciousness of higher mammals is an illusion created by a human brain. That is an absolutely ridiculous statement. Higher mammals clearly do not have a human brain, so to suggest that their consciousness is created by a human brain is foolish beyond belief. Next you say that "This concept of the immortal soul is purely a fantasy created by the bible" Then right after that you say "The bible does not teach of any immortal soul, the immortal soul is actually from pagan babylonian and egyptian theology." Those statements are totally contradictory just as your argument from buddhism was, you have made three major contradictions so far during this debate. With all these contradictions how can we even be sure your entire argument is not contradictory? Your whole argument is totally flawed because you claim that modern science accepts beyond a shadow of a doubt that consciousness is a product of the brain. This is absolutely not true modern science CANNOT explain how the brain produces consciousness so to just say that the brain must produce it since there is no other physical explanation for where it comes from is a leap of faith no different then the leap of faith taken by the religious. Your physicalist atheist position is based not in fact but in faith you are just as religious as I am. The hard fact is modern scientists do NOT know how the brain produces consciousness and to say anything else is a LIE and a heresy to the scientific community. Here is a direct quote from NEUROSURGEON Eben Alexander "our spirit is not dependent on the brain or body. It is eternal, and no one has one sentence worth of hard evidence that it isn't". Another quote "I maintain that the human mystery is incredibly demeaned by scientific reductionism, with its claim in promissory materialism to account for all of the spiritual world in terms of patterns of neuronal activity. This belief must be classed as a superstition, we have to recognize that we are spiritual beings with souls existing in a spiritual world as well as material beings with bodies and brains existing in a material world". This man is a HARVARD educated neurosurgeon with the utmost authority as to the workings of the human brain and he clearly states that consciousness is NOT a product of the human brain. Even more he is not the only educated man to take this point of view. Alva Noe is a modern philosopher and COGNITIVE SCIENTIST who was educated at HARVARD. http://www.google.com... Even atheist and evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins cannot explain consciousness http://www.google.com... In this video Richard Dawkins makes the ASSUMPTION that consciousness emerges from the brain but clearly states that he cant explain how. In other words Richard Dawkins does not have a clue as to how consciousness works so he makes a leap of faith and a guess as to how it works. So there you have it a renowned neurosurgeon, evolutionary biologist, and philosopher/ cognitive scientist admit that consciousness cannot be explained by modern science. Your entire argument that modern science claims that consciousnesses comes from the brain is utterly false. Your entire argument has been based on a LIE! Not only do you present information that is nonsensical and contradictory you also argue with information that is utterly and totally UNTRUE! Your are presenting people with the idea that our entire existence is totally physical and that there is nothing more or meaningful to life not only is this idea harmful and depressing it is totally and utterly scientifically FALSE! Even if consciousness was caused by the material brain and was purely physical we would not perceive ourselves as separate beings since there is no physical separateness there would be one consciousness according to physicalism not many. We do clearly perceive ourselves as separate which is according to materialism not possible yet it occurs this shows that materialism is utterly false. Since you based one of your earlier arguments on buddhism you must accept the fact that there is not really any physical separateness this is a central doctrine of buddhism as well as material science which has been monistic dating back to aristotle. According to science there should be one consciousness not many and there are clearly many. Furthermore if the physical brain was the only source of knowledge then we could not grasp pure ideals which we clearly do. For example, one may say that a woman is beautiful and one may also say that a view of nature is beautiful but these are obviously two different beauties. Although these things may partake in the ideal of beauty they are not beauty itself. Beauty itself does not exist in the material world yet human beings can think about beauty itself. Our physical brains can only receive information from the material world through the senses the fact that we have knowledge of something that is not from the physical world demonstrates that there is a realm higher then the physical world and the fact that we can think about it proves we have an immaterial mind which is separate from the brain. This mind is the soul. Even if I were to ignore all past arguments I can prove that based on thought alone there is a soul. Another example, I can picture my mind without my body I can imagine them as separate. If I can imagine them as separate things then they logically are separate things. From this perspective trying to explain the mind as part of the body is not possible. I can clearly imagine my mind without my body, if i were to say that the mind and the body were the same thing then trying to imagine my mind without my body would be the same as trying to imagine my body without my body which is clearly impossible. Still I can imagine my mind without my body, if it were my body that would be impossible which it is not, according to logic through thought the mind IS separate from the body and trying to say anything else would be nonsensical. I have clearly demonstrated that your arguments which seek to destroy individuality and freedom are contradictory, nonsensical, and in the case of your main argument an outright LIE. I have demonstrated that my arguments are based in both solid science and thought logic. There is a soul separate from the body.