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A Lineated Disquisition, Part I
(for Charles Darwin)

Winston Derden

Is it the province of science or religion
to investigate the point at which the soul emerges
in the course of human evolution —

Homo habilis, Homo erectus,
Cro-Magnon, Neanderthal,
or only with Homo sapiens, the unacknowledged assumption?

A thorn-in-the-side grieves that question
when a bush, not a tree,
becomes the metaphor of evolution.

Dead branches in profusion raise
the issue of proto-souls,
partial-formed in pre-sapiens bodies,

and what might their eternal destinies be,
proto-heavens, proto-hells, or proto-purgatories?
Does the answer vary by species or by religion?

And on the scientific side, can a soul be gauged
with biometric calibration based upon
the archaeological record, the volume of a ribcage or a cranium?

Comparative religionists
would, of course, point out
animism entirely avoids the issue:

a numen essential to its innate nature imbued
in every material object and living being,
wind, rock, tree, or river, as well as human.

Then again, a rationalist
might propose the soul is a supposition,
there being no empirical evidence.

Inerrantists, in turn, might opt
for the easiest answer:
a biblical denial of evolution.

Wherever the answer, it lies beyond my ken.
So, interested parties, kindly post at #evolsoul
soon as you nail that final, foolproof revelation.



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