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Barbara asked:

Do ants have immortal souls? If not how can humans? after all from a distance we may as well be
ants too.

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We would not, I think, even look like ants from a distance, let alone beants. After all, we would not
appear to have feelers or nipped in waists. But even if we looked like ants, would that mean were
wereants?

As for souls, I don't believe ants have souls, but then I am pretty skeptical about whether people have
them either. But that is neither because humans are ants nor because ants don't have souls.

Ken Stern