Wieseltier Tackles the "Darwinist Mob" | National Catholic Reporter

Wieseltier Tackles the "Darwinist Mob" | National Catholic Reporter by MSW.  MGB: Interesting.  I find some secularists (which is what they call themselves) take that view because religionists use their beliefs to undertake actions that are quite ghastly.  Indeed, if you believe objectively that women can be as spiritual as men, those ghastly actions have not yet stopped.  It is sad, however, that some of them have no room for a discussion of what the soul is and how it is expressed in a creature or organism.  Is it merely a product of the brain?  If so, it is an illusion because the brain acts before the thought occurs as a reflection of that action.  If this is to be the soul, then there is nothing wrong with abortion until the third trimester.  You could also say that the soul is the expression of thought through language, in which case even infanticide is permissible.  If, however, the soul is expressed as the energy that drives every cell to its actions - which if missing causes entropy, then you can both prove the soul exists, that is might even go somewhere after death and that it is first present when regulative development occurs at gastrulation.  I don't see this as a fitting subject for biology, although biology can certainly provide supportive information.  It can certainly, however, provide input into both law and philosophy - and especially theology.