A Physician by the name of Duncan McDougall attempted to measure the weight of a soul by measuring the weight of a human before and after death. It turns out, when a person dies, they lose about 3/4 of an ounce, or 21 grams. Now, killjoys have called this insensible loss; basically, some kind of unexplainable evaporation. Here's what I propose though. If a soul really does weigh 21 grams, shouldn't there also be an unexplainable GAIN of 21 grams at the instant a foetus gains it's soul? See, it's easy enough to say "oh, the loss was due to some kind of rapid perspiration" since the human body excretes stuff all the time without our conscious effort: sweat, oils, air... but we have a lot of control over what enters our body: nose, and mouth, and clearly nothing would be entering these area's of the mother. A sudden gain in the same weight, then, would be a very clear indicator that the soul does indeed have mass.
See this link for more information on the experiment:
http://www.lostmag.com/issue1/soulsweight.php
See this link for more information on the experiment:
http://www.lostmag.com/issue1/soulsweight.php
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