Wesley - It might. But why does the existence of souls necessarily indicate the presence of a deity?

If we can imagine many individual beings in bodies, but no God...which is what the atheist imagines...then why can we not imagine many individual non-physical souls also, but no God?

I see no reason at all why non-physical souls MUST have come from a creating deity. Could not evolution occur in spirit as well as in matter? Might not one be a reflection of the other, but in a different frequency spectrum, that's all?

I'm not saying that souls don't come from a God, I'm just saying that the one does not in any way obligate the presence of the other.

A ghost might be a manifestation of a soul. It also might be some remaining psychic residue from a bundle of strong emotion (which is what ghosts usually seem to be), and not a soul at all. It might, in effect, be an echo of the past...not an ordinary aural echo...a psychic one.