Origin of man

He said the loss was about three-fourths of an ounce, or just over 21 grams.

MacDougall conducted similar tests during the deaths of other patients over the years and got similar results. He noted that the entire bed was weighed so that any loss of fluids from urine or the bowels at the moment of death would still be weighed because the material would remain on the bed.

The doctor even considered loss of left-over air in the lungs. To test the possible weight of air in the lungs, he said he and another person each got on the bed and strenuously inhaled and exhaled. Their efforts made no change on the scale.

As a further part of his experiments, Dr. MacDougall wrote that he tried the same experiment with 15 dogs. He said he had to drug the animals to keep them from struggling, which suggests that he also used drugs to kill them. He wrote that there was no change in the weight of the bodies of the dogs at the moment of their death.

The experiments suggest then, that the soul has substance and a measurable mass. It also suggests that humans have something that animals do not, and that it leaves the body at the moment we die

It is imperative that this �initial cause� is not confined to space and time; in other words, it has to be infinite, omnipresent and ever-present, therefore it must be without a beginning, uncreated and everlasting.

This initial, beginning-less, uncreated, infinite and everlasting cause, we call God.

2. If the universe is endless, there are two possibilities:

a) It recycles itself, or

b) It is an expanding, super-universe, with possible infinite, subsidiary universes being born from it.

a) If our universe recycles itself, if it continuously expands and contracts, it would still require a cause behind its every expansion. In other words, if it contracts because of (existing) gravitational forces, then it would take a tremendous external force to make it overcome the pull of gravity on its immense mass, so that it can re-expand.  Thus, we must again resort to this initial cause that we called God. Anyway, this hypothesis has recently been proven wrong, given that recent surveys (2 April 2001) led to the conclusion that our universe is open; in other words, it will be forever expanding. This in turn signifies that it neither pulsates nor is recycled. Specifically, Michael Turner (astronomer of the University of Chicago) had stated in a scientific convention at NASA�s central offices: �For seventy long years, astronomers and cosmologists believed that, although the universe is expanding, its rate of expansion will, at some point in the distant future, slacken. The question is �when?� But now, after discovering the vast distance to the supernova star 1997ff, we proved that the universe not only continues to expand, but also, that its rate of expansion is steadily increasing instead of decreasing.�

b) If, on the other hand, our universe is just a �tiny bubble, of an expanding super-universe�, it could, itself, comprise one of the infinite, continuously-born and vanishing universes of every type, where each one of them would have its cause in another �ancestral� universe, which could possibly become the cause for the existence of a newer universe.  In this kind of a universe, there are those who cannot see any reason for seeking another cause, beyond this super-universe; although, once again, in this scenario, there could exist the other cause: the one we called God.

Even so, the only thing achieved in this case is to make it even more complex, and the problem be shifted elsewhere. We would again require an answer to the question: �What is the cause for the existence of this super-universe?�

Even in a super-universe with no chronical beginning of its own, it is still compulsory to identify its beginning in respect to its existence - albeit each of its component-universes has its cause in one another!  Given that the component-universes are interconnected in the time-space continuum, the overall system can still be seen as ONE super-universe, where its own time-space and its own (subsidiary) chain of causes become its noose�  And, naturally, its reason for existence will likewise have to be sought outside this lattice of (possibly infinite numbers) of universes�.

We must therefore conclude that every single thing in the universe is subject to the laws of space and time and is subsequently alterable. Only the initial cause is not subject to any kind of law and is subsequently unalterable, and it remains unchanging, no matter how much time goes by.