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I believe they do. But the higher forms such as mammals and birds.
But do all creatures have a soul. what about insects or snakes or even fish. What about those. I can't be sure.Where do you draw the line, should you draw the line or are they all equally capable of having a soul as some religions believe.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I find it a little hard to believe that you need to have 'soul' defind.
Its the thing that makes us what we are as idviduals.
Cats and dogs can be individual in the way they react above the basic instincts of life.
Quiamaster, Thats a lovely peace and it does make you think.
Just a shame some people don't think outside the box for just a bit about the bigger picture.
I'm not eloquant with words myself but from one or two of the answers here I think the human race in general is losing its soul.
Shame really ain't it.
If a human has a soul then any animal has a soul.
Objectively speaking then every organism thus has a soul including plants.
All animals including humans are groups of cells that carry out their own special roles making up the larger organism, the animal.
Evolutionarily speaking we are nothing special.
If just humans have souls and animals do not that lead to other questions such as do some humans have souls and some don't? Are some humans more human than others?
Apparently soul does need defining, as I don't agree that it is what makes us individual.
The animating and vital principle in humans, credited with the faculties of thought, action, and emotion and often conceived as an immaterial entity.
The spiritual nature of humans, regarded as immortal, separable from the body at death, and susceptible to happiness or misery in a future state.
The disembodied spirit of a dead human.
A human: �the homes of some nine hundred souls� (Garrison Keillor).
The central or integral part; the vital core: �It saddens me that this network... may lose its soul, which is after all the quest for news� (Marvin Kalb).
A person considered as the perfect embodiment of an intangible quality; a personification: I am the very soul of discretion.
A person's emotional or moral nature: �An actor is... often a soul which wishes to reveal itself to the world but dare not� (Alec Guinness).
A sense of ethnic pride among Black people and especially African Americans, expressed in areas such as language, social customs, religion, and music.
A strong, deeply felt emotion conveyed by a speaker, a performer, or an artist.
Soul music.
So animals don't have souls according to that. Who is to say that only humans have soul? Fair enough with whatever you believe euphraxia, but we all have opinions. I think it's more of a matter of opinion than getting an answer to this Q..