I’m not anywhere close to considering myself a biology expert, however I do find the subject fascinating and I find the implications of biology on religion to be eye opening.<\/p>\n
Mormon doctrine, the stuff generated in my lifetime anyway, tends to avoid teaching concepts that conflict with science. Science, however, doesn’t seem to mind infringing.<\/p>\n
Take the point that Sam Harris, author of the controversial book Letter to a Christian Nation<\/em>, raises. He articulates that the math behind a belief in one soul for every living being does not add up.<\/p>\n Take for a moment that there are souls in this petri dish, and that every three day old blastocyst is en-souled. Well unfortunately embryos at that age can split into twins. So what’s happening there? We have one soul turning into two souls?<\/p>\n Embryos at a later stage can fuse back into what is called a chimera—a single individual born of two embryos. So do we have two souls becoming one soul? This arithmetic of souls doesn’t make much sense.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n What I’m wondering is, how does one reconcile this very simple mathematical dilemma?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"