interesting point of view @ello
but what about a computer generated soul then? (ye we're in a programmers forum ^^)
If the AI developement comes to the point where a human brain can be simulated.. where the computer gehts its own behaviour, its own 'soul'.. What about this one then?

and to Gazzbass:
you have written down a lot of things that I think of, too. Thanks to that
Science turned to be the most 'wonderful' area ever, it brought us things even religion could not imagine.