darkprince10...

the problem with your statement is that it is an assumption that the spirit has no recollection and no memories. People who have "died" and been brought back and had "death or near death experiences" have all remembered and felt emotional connections. Some of them claim a sense of peace and some claim a sense of unrest and torment. So there is definitely more than just death.

I look at our situation (mankind) and it is obvious to me that there is something much much more than evolution (which I don't believe in) that makes us stand out.
Some of the simple facts about humans are:

We have the ability to destroy and to preserve life. With us it is given as a choice, not an instinct. Animals instinctively do things, dogs, cats, sharks, they live based off of instinct. A dog does not feel remorse for biting, nor do sharks decide that they would rather be plant eaters because they don't want to hurt other animals. I do believe we have instincts, but I also see that we are in a place that no other creature on this earth is in. There is something to that.

Also, lets look at evolution. The idea is that men all come from the same place. There are some problems with this theory.

1st. If one animal can evolve then we should also note that the same thing would be taking place in other species and groups in some sort of variation. This would mean that as we look around we would see other animals evolving to meet the "competition" for survival that men have become. We don't see this. In fact, we see animals like the shark who have come to a place where they are said to have not evolved for millions of years. They have not started to talk, they have not sprouted legs to get on land, they have simply remained the same. This places a big hole in the argument for evolution as a total category.

I do not believe that we come from monkeys because that would mean that they would have ceased to exist at some point because they would have been replaced by a stronger species.

Thats just the iceberg on the holes in the theory of evolution. Now I believe that people adapt, but I don't believe that the adaptation is a species changing thing, I believe its just like getting used to a new climate, or a new city. We adjust and we make due.

For those who think that we just die and that's it. There is an enormous amount of evidence to support the existence of paranormal activity. Spirits, ghosts, demons, whatever you want to call it, but the evidence is there. That evidence makes me stand pretty solid in a belief that there is much more to the world that what we see.

I believe in God, I believe in Jesus, and I believe that there is something powerful and penetrating that happened in the middle east 2 thousand years ago. I believe that even if you don't believe in the Bible as a person of Christian faith (notice I did not say religious person) that there is still a very large amount of evidence in historical documentation to support the history, the miraculous nature, and the moral usefulness (sadly bad and good) that exists in the pages of the Bible.

If you respond to this please PM me b/c I am not likely to come back here otherwise.