Quote Originally Posted by b-rabbit
...the law of conservation of energy tells us that energy can not be created nor destroyed but only change in form.
and this lends it self as proof of ghosts how? For this to support the existence of ghosts we would first have to believe in individuals having some sort of "spirit" or "soul." Yet these concepts were conceived, like many religious concepts, only to explain what could not be explained. Or you could even argue that the idea of a soul was created only as a control mechanism; if you have a soul which lives and is judged after you die, you need to act within a rule set to avoid a negative judgment. But that's getting a bit off track. The point is that you are right, energy cannot be destroyed nor created, and neither happens when we are born or when we die. The energy which is stored and/or used as fat, bone, muscle, and other tissue decomposes and is consumed by other living things.

The idea that we need a soul to live is way more far fetched then the theory that our consciousness is simply an extremely complex series of chemical reactions.