Originally posted by Alcra
As for the "alien planet" hypothesis, I would suggest we discard it. Adding it to the debate will introduce far too many variables.
Firstly yes, the up/down of humanity's moral progress is a subject for another thread.
However in response to the above quote, it was
your question that brought in these variables... I was actually trying to point out the futility of applying
physical laws to the
metaphysical concept of reincarnation, not to argue the variables themselves.
Even if we accept that souls
are affected by physical laws (which is what your cause and effect statement: "...extinction of lesser species, so more souls need to be born human..." implies) you still have no basis for assuming the effects are bound/locked in space/time...
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