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Originally Posted by Ohio

Show me one primate, besides yourself I guess, that has ever exhibited the tendency to "believe" in the unseen Creator.

You may judge man by dirt and DNA, but I don't and neither does the scripture. So much for your "science." You obviously have missed out on all the important things in life.

At conception God breathes into man a soul, and he becomes a living person, a unique individual made in His own image and likeness, which will live for eternity. Sorry if that is not good enough for you, and you prefer living in the dirt.

"The Hominidae, whose members are known as great apes or hominids, are a taxonomic family of primates that includes eight extant species in four genera: Pongo, the Bornean, Sumatran and Tapanuli orangutan; Gorilla, the eastern and western gorilla; Pan, the common chimpanzee and the bonobo; and Homo, which includes modern humans and its extinct relatives (e.g., the Neanderthal), and ancestors, such as Homo erectus." Groves, C.P. (2005). Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M., eds. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 181–184. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. OCLC 62265494

So, I show you yourself--a primate who believes in an unseen Creator.

I don't consider man dirt, Genesis 2:7 does. See post #4489.

The Hebrew terms נפש‬ nefesh means literally "living being". Zohar, Rayah Mehemna, Terumah 158b. See Leibowitz, Aryeh (2018). The Neshamah: A Study of the Human Soul. Feldheim Publishers. Pages 27 and 110. ISBN 1680253387. The Latin word for nefesh is anima so my paraphrase animated dirt was quite literally correct from the standpoint of Latin.