I think that when God created the universe, he made the laws of nature with the future homo sapiens in mind. I think he made the laws such that the soul evolved in parallel with the human body, and I think we had souls prior to our becoming homo sapiens. Of the soul, I include self-awareness, consciousness, imagination, empathy, love, the ability to think in the abstract, to use symbols in communication, plus a sense of the transcendent and a desire for the infinite.
