I share your curiosity about alien life. If it exists on distant worlds orbiting
other stars, who is to say that evolution would necessarily produce intelligent,
technologically adept apemen like us? We aren’t the target of Earth evolution
but just one of an infinite range of possible species, so it follows that any
intelligent aliens on a far flung planet could be of a completely different
pattern. Brainy fish creatures, huge reptiles or peculiar luminescent floating
plaques on a liquid world might represent the dominant life forms, with no
Earthlike technologies enabling them to communicate their presence to us.

My hope is that alien life might be found in my lifetime in our solar system,
perhaps in microbial form beneath the crust of an area of Mars where water
exists or under the surface of Jupiter’s mysterious satellite, Europa.

Soul music is another matter. I don’t associate soul with any kind of
disembodied entity, it’s more like hearing an authentic voice that hits the spot,
stimulates the correct electro chemical pleasure centre in the brain’s frontal
lobe or something. Al Green can do it for me, or Curtis Mayfield, Or Jeff Beck,
or Edward Elgar. It’s a nice feeling, but probably completely explainable within
boring old mechanistic parameters….

why single gods out from a multitude of other unprovable and evidence free items that one could bring up to argue about

I don’t single out gods. In fact, I’m pretty sure nobody does. The question isn’t really about God so much as it is about the metaphysical. The soul, ghosts, God and gods, the “supernatural”. The question that concerns most people is whether or not the physical universe is the only universe.

I have to admit, I find the question interesting. I don’t see any evidence for “souls” or non-physical reality, but then we don’t see any evidence for alien civilizations either, and that doesn’t stop our curiosity.

In a world of fairness and justice, shouldn’t every dubious entity to find expression in the human imagination be accorded an A prefixed entry in the
Webster’s to define non believers?

Words are often the product of necessity. If enough people become interested in denying that souls exist, maybe we will have a word for that. Just don’t tell James Brown.

In a world of fairness and justice, shouldn’t every dubious entity to find
expression in the human imagination be accorded an A prefixed entry in the
Webster’s to define non believers?