Expert: Marco - 11/15/2010

Question
Marco, I read your profile and would definitely like to hear
your proof on the soul's existence. My wife is a fairly
devout Catholic; I am agnostic. Our children are being
raised Catholic. I think it's important they have a good
spiritual foundation. I must admit I get a little irritated
when my very intelligent wife will condemn another religion
or social practice soley on faith with complete disregard
for facts that might contradict what her priest told her. My
brother recently gave my wife a book on basic yoga because
he knows she has a very stressful life. She has no intention
of even opening the book because it's "evil" and expects
followers to completely change their way of thinking about
life. That's just not true. It's not necessary to fully
embrace yoga to benefit from it. She's the same way about
Masons, which I guess might be a little more valid. What are
your thoughts? Thanks for your time.

Answer
Dear Ed,

yoga is both a philosophy and a gymnastic technique.
Of course you need not embrace the yoga philosophy in order to do the yoga gymnastic exercises.
However I do not think you should insist with your wife because this would certainly cause her even more stress; there are many other gymnastic exercises (with no connections to eastern philosophies)which can relax exactly as yoga exercises, so let her choose what she prefers.

I think that faith cannot come only from logic, because to have faith in God means to trust and love God.
I think however that logics and science prove the existence of our soul and the existence of  God and that there are many rational arguments strongly supporting the christian faith.
The explanation of these aguments is rather long and Allexperts allows only to give short answers. You can find such arguments  in the following site

http://xoomer.alice.it/fedeescienza/englishnf.html

where  I analyse the incongruencies of the materialistic conception of the mind, on the basis of our present scientific knowledges about brain and matter.
This analysis points out how the laws of physics  prove that the   brain cannot generate consciousness, which existence implies  the presence in man of a unbiological/unmaterial element. The problem of consciousness is then strictly connected to the one of the existence of the soul and, consequently, the existence of God.
In the first article entitled “Mind and brain...” you can find a general discussion of the mind and brain problem from a scientific point of view.
In the second article entitled “Scientific contraddictions in materialism”
you  can find an explanation of the fundamental inconsistencies of  the  typical arguments used by materialists, such as the concept of emergent, macroscopic or holist property, complexity, information, etc.
In the section called “FAQ: answers to  visitors' questions” you can find the answer to many typical questions, such as "Are there any scientifically proved miracles?", "Does the existence of the universe imply the existence of God?", "Can science explain God?", "Can science establish which is the true religion?", "Can science explain consciousness in the future?", and many others.



I hope this may help,

please ask again if you should need some clarifications,

Your brother in Christ,

Marco