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Dear Diary,
My mind is churning so much that I can’t fall asleep. I can’t stop thinking about the summit. What a crazy plan! I never thought I’d be hearing about souls in a scientific facility. That kind of talk is usually reserved for church for me.
But, all this talk of souls got me thinking again abuot the problem I have grappled with ever since I started studying science in college…my religion.
I was raised a Christian, and I have a strong religious background. It was prefectly fine when I was in high school science classes. I could totally accept both what I learned at school as well as church. But in college, once I got past the introductory classes, I began to doubt. My training taught me to only accept empirical, concrete evidence. Results. Data. Yet here I was, putting all of my faith into a god that I could not see, smell, hear, taste, or feel. You can’t quantify God!
As my scientific education progressed and the more I thought about God, I began to doubt his existence more and more. I was having a hard time believeing in something that you can’t even prove its existence.
Despite my doubts, the fundamentals of my religion had been deeply ingrained in me since childhood. It’s hard to break something with that strong of a foundation. It has always been a great struggle for me. I learned top cope with it by basically ignoring the problem, not really coming to a conclusion either way. I became an agnostic of sorts, not really believing, but not really unbelieving either. I still tried to live my life morally, just in case.
That has worked for me, up until now. All this talk of souls and the assignment concerning them is just reviving the issue.

Is there even a soul in the first place? And if there is, is it really our job as humans to be messing around with it?

I suppose this will be a good time to settle this issue once and for all…