This is the first piece in quite some time that made me even contemplate for even one second, that perhaps there was something more than thousands of years of insecurity and ignorance fueled b_llsh_t behind the creationist beliefs, and while i do think your argument really does have some value to "them" [the creationists], and have by no means been led to believe that there IS an actual spirit,
i most primarily continue to be shocked, living in a society that has collectively achieved such amazing feats in terms of understanding the parts of the world that we can understand, which have resulted in essentially every verifiable truth and technological utility that we possess - while still remaining a world in which perhaps half of the human population believes in what appears to be truly supernatural stories.
I tell my children that they are 50% "me", "50% their mother, and yet "100%" themselves.
Between what we are born as, meaning the sum of what the replicators become when they combine with one another, and the sum of everything which surrounds us [Nurture/Experience], is where things get truly confusing.
"What are We?", when there's literally nothing that can be "found", between our genetic book, and everything that surrounds us which is essentially beyond our control.
We tend to go with the assumption that "God" is "Just" Everything,
that "he/she/it" did something akin to the commission of altruistic suicide at the big bang, [in accordance with the popular cliche which tells us, "that to know if someone loves you, set it free, and if it returns, we can be assured"],
and that, to our knowledge atm, we are the only things in the universe, which, though we cannot violate the laws of physics as we understand them,
are not limited to simply behaving according to those laws unconsciously.
It seems most likely, that whatever the spirit is, there is just one, and that we are conscious manifestations of that spirit, contained in the body, which the youniverse conceived as a vehicle to it's own discovery.
I do like to ask "believers": "What are YOU, if not God". [we're not clay]
Not that many posts here really make me Think very much at all about anything beyond the crypto/blockchain/technological spheres.
Alx
Your work shocks the world of steemit, incredible. !!