Perplexing Unoriginal Thoughts

On "intelligent" design:

• Why do men have nipples?
• Why do chickens have wings?

On the soul:

• How does one explain amnesia in the context of an immaterial soul? How does a physical injury affect a non-physical entity?
• How do we explain diseases such as Alzheimer's and their effect on subjective identity? (There is a book called Chicken Soup for the Alzheimer's Soul - believe it or not)
• Are the thoughts, personality, and identity of a person resident in the soul?
• Should we henceforth say that the patient's soul (rather than brain) was injured in the wreck?

On heaven:

• How does one reconcile the primitive notion of "up" relative to God or heaven in light of our current understanding that up exists only as a relative direction, such as "left" or "right"? In reality, there is no "up"; there is only "out."
• What does such a terracentric perspective say about the authors of our ancient texts and their limited knowledge?
• How did Jesus ascend into heaven? Or for that matter descend into hell?