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Old 02-20-2008, 12:02 PM
David Bailey David Bailey is offline
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Originally Posted by Interesting Ian View Post
I think he means "soul of the gaps" i.e materialism has a little difficulty in entirely explaining consciousness, so people introduce a magical soul to explain everything.
Well he possibly does, but I do get the feeling that some skeptics think we are all closet bible thumpers. I even avoid the use of the word 'soul' because it is tainted with Christianity, and also rather vague.

David
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