"why do you think that a soul is a socially defined definition and not, at it's core, essentialist?" "well, i don't really know what i think. i'm a biologist and i know that we, as human beings, recognize other human beings by their phenotypes and appearance, so it's kind of an operational definition of a soul and i don't know why but i know that you are a human being, in my mind"
i think im just losing it at this point this man deserves a case study
"i feel like most people want their children to live a better life than you yourself did" okay, sure, but you can do that without taking away what makes someone human
why can't molecular biologists that focus on humans be normal. you can feed six or eight billion people without cutting down the entire amazon rainforest man
"a lot of people hold spiritual beliefs without realizing they're actually spiritual beliefs" says the biophysics phd lad who thinks that the biotech sector is a field overridden by spiritual ideologies
i think his take on biotechnology being polarized is very right but the way he's doing community outreach by speaking about the human soul is a little weird surely there's a better way to do this, right silver. right.
Salvinia took a lean against the tall counter that Wyle sat in front of, though she didn’t actually take a seat in the stool they failed to stash back under the bed. “I've gathered so far that you haven't been treated the best in your life. Is this true?”
i don't think anyone in the accord was treated good ma'am
"some may ask why we can be considered humans when the boundaries of what makes us human is blurred by the regions of spirituality" ok fair claim "some people claim that the sun, moon, stars all lie within the heavenly canopy which rotates around the earth" ?????