Humanity's Stuggle With Death.

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What is there other than this ultimate reunion of souls?

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Life.. every day existance. the love a person for their parents, their spouse. The smell of the flowers in the summer, and the feel of wind through your hair (if you have any).

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Why would life be worth living without eternity?

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It makes life all that more precious. My life, and your life.
Every life is unique and therefore precious.

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Are the feelings of total partiality, and love all part of humanity's innate abilities to become one with eachother?

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There is a good biological function for that.. man is a social aninmal. Those feelings towards your fellow man helps bond societies togather.

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This struggle invokes feelings like no others, death becomes a benchmark of memory. What can honestly explain this? Why are humans like this? And why are only humans like this? Why do the polar bears not cry? And why do the plants not mourn the death of relatives?

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Man has a hyper developed intellect as a survivival characteristic. As for death becoming a benchmark of memory, can you prove it is only for man? Plants don't have intelligent. And, I don't know if bears do not have an equivilant or not. elephants do seem to mourn, as to other primates.

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Why are we special, and who/what made us like this?

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Other than ego, why do you think we are 'special'? and natural processes is certainly a good enough explaination on how we got the
way we are.

Why can't elephants have a philosphy about the world? They are intelliigent, they have much bigger brains than humans, they mourn their dead, and they can communicate information that gets passed down generation to generation.Your simple declaration is not a good enough answer.

However, Thomas Aquina made some bad assumptoins and logical fallacies.His 'reason' is not good reasoning.. but more hope than anything else.

You are so concentrating on just the negative. You would also get community spirit and altruism.. help thy neighbor,and he will help you.Humans evolved as social animals, and social animals help others in their group. It helps the survivial of the group.

If 'God' would not do it that way, how do you explain the vast amount of evidence for evolution, vs the vast amount of evidence against YEC?Why are you limiting God on how she/he/it would do things?

Yes, the same thing can be said of me.. but when it comes to seeing how things are done, I am limited to the physical world, and all the evidence I see is of the physical world. The evidence shows that things happened litterally as the bible says is wrong.That leaves me (being a logical person), with several options.
1) The bible is not literal
2) God is a 'deceiver' God that made things LOOK old.
or
3) There is no god.