... the argument caused the Christian Catholic Church to state that the Earth was also the centre of the Universe and that everything revolved around the planet. If you are not dogmatic in your religion, you can use a logical argument to define your belief. If you consider how a dog, a cat, or other animal has a personality and a memory and how it reacts to life, you may find it hard to believe that your pet is just a complex machine that has no spiritual aspect or soul and is gone when it dies. If an animal that has love and feelings is just a machine, why should humans be any different? The only problem with giving animals souls concerns at what level do you stop? If a dog has a spiritual aspect or soul, does a chipmunk? A bird? A worm? What about a fly? Or bacteria? In ...

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