Quote Originally Posted by sivason View Post
So, I have a question for anyone supporting the strictly material nature of all things. How do you benifit from the belief, and what inside you causes you to settle with one belief, disallowing the likelyhood of concepts like a soul?

I am not asking for a dry 'never been proven' line of reason. What I am hoping for is some insight into what reason any of you have for choosing that outlook. For instance, agnostics get the pleasent feeling that anything could be possable, without the pressure to commit. A devote theist, probably gets various benifits, like a peaceful feeling that death is not the end. So, I am looking for 2 things,,, your reasons for believing ina 100% non-mystical/spiritual world of chemistry, and why you choose to accept that idea, being it is just as much an act of faith, as say, an act of faith.

No offense is intended at all, I honestly would be curious if someone wishes to share.
I don't strictly support the material nature of all things, I am agnostic as I believe that nothing can be said with absolute certainty.

Despite it being illogical to believe solely in the possibility of a strictly material world (I don't see how you can refute a belief without any evidence to accept or deny it) I can definitely understand where the basis of the idea comes from....simplicity.

The largest part of my intuition that tells me that there is a low probability of souls existing or there being a god is the fact that it would be extremely difficult to integrate into our current scientific beliefs. We live in a world were almost 99% of all everyday things can be answered through our standard physical model. It seems unintuitive to add a whole new layer of complexity by involving such concepts.
What a lot of people, mainly in the scientific community really wish to see is a theory of everything, not just any though, but one in which everything in the universe is composed of some type of basic unit.
I think this idea pleases a lot of people who claim to believe in a 100% non mystical world, probably because it would solve many mysteries that would otherwise remain and it also carries an underlying sense of order, and anything mystical would just stand in the way of that simplicity.

At least that's what is the most appealing part to myself, if I were to believe solely in it.