I'm curious to evolutionists thoughts or beliefs on where our "energy" (body, soul and spirit) goes after death.
Seriously, if you believe we "evolved" from a rock or mass of goo, do you believe that's what we return to?
This question was not meant to be "arrogant"... so thank you "Mackey", "Delta" and "No Chance Without:" for answering sincerely, without sarcasm...I really appreciate your input.
Kojak
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FIRST..... I have a different approach......I believe in evolution AND God.....evolution is just God's way of creating
SECOND.....How do I explain the Bible ...... If you are going to talk to a Greek.....you talk in Greek..... The same concept applies to the Bible....God spoke in words and concepts the average person understands..... early people would not comprehend.....eons.....but they understood "seven days"....
creating by evolution would be beyond those people's comprehension.... but "making" something is within their sphere of knowledge
But to answer your question.....from the ones I have talked to..... non-deists believe you return to your base elements....(rot)...... Einstein theorized that energy changes form but is never destroyed.... atheists believe you decompose into your base elements and become some other form of energy ( dirt, worm food.....etc)
I believe there is more to it than that....
LarsEighner
Nowhere.
There is no soul or spirit apart from configuration of cells, chemicals, and electrochemical impulses in the brain. You might as well ask where does the operating system go when a computer is crushed to dust or burnt to vapors. The body whether it is buries or blown to bits too small to bury, decomposes, and that is that.
>Seriously, if you believe we "evolved" from a rock or mass of goo, do you believe that's what we return to?
Ashes to ashes and dust to dust.
DownUnder John
Everyone can have all the theories and beliefs they like, but, we will all only, 100%, know the answer to what happens when we die, the day, we ourselves actually die!
I myself, think we all end up in a box in the ground, or in an urn on the mantle piece.
Even the bible says 'dust to dust' 'ashes to ashes'. If not, then what is Ash Wednesday all about in the catholic church?
However, If i come back as a dolphin, or am able to fly around the sky all day as a spirit, cool! :)
delta
If energy cannot be destroyed, then our consciousness or energy or soul or spirit or whatever you call it, should be transformed or converted into something.
I have rejected the concept of heaven and hell, because it seems illogical to me. If so many living beings exist, is there a separate heaven and hell for all of these beings? How does a cockroach be good or bad to get into heaven or hell?
I am considering oblivion or reincarnation. I am still undecided.
CSE
I don't believe in soul/spirit. I'm not saying it is impossible for them to exist, but I've never seen anything to suggest that either are real.
As for when we die, my view is that we'll cease to exist. It would be like the time before we were born.
The matter and energy that constitutes our body will decay break down or be converted into other forms, becoming something new, just like it did when it was converted into us when we were mere cells splitting in a womb.