In message <[log in to unmask]>, Steve Dirickson
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>> But taking your point where it does apply, at the
>> atomic/molecular level,
>> you should now see a difficulty with reincarnation. All the
>> atoms that ever
>> were, are, apart from a few we lost in atomic explosions. So
>> we haven't
>> gained any. And maybe a few atoms in my body were once in
>> Julius Caesar's
>> body? SO if we are both reincarnated, who gets them?
>
>I do. In fact, I've already got them--you'll both have to look
>elsewhere. But why is that a problem? Atoms is atoms.

Oops, sorry, brain fart - I was thinking of resurrection (when we
*would* all want our atoms back, or at least a complete set just like
them).

Obviously reincarnation is fine - we *are* all made from the atoms on
the Earth, whether we were here before or not......

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