Do human beings have a mind?

Since I last talked with you, we've seen the turn of a new year, and three months of Winter. I've been shaken down by US customs, my fiance killed a monster rat, and we're getting married in May. Then we're going to Slovenia. Now for "issues."

Do human beings have a mind? I've been reading Thomas Szasz's book A Lexicon of Lunacy. He suggests that people do not have a mind as far as science is concerned. At first this frightened me. How can all that we see, experience, feel, and understand be the result of a brain hardly more complex in its structure and function than that of an ape? See, that's the problem with psychology. It presumes to address illness that is not of the brain but of the mind...of course science cannot prove the EXISTENCE of a mind, let alone treat its diseases.

I'm not a big fan of evolution as its generally understood. Its a theory, like others. It has some evidence, like others. I just wonder why its the ONLY accepted topic of discussion in schools when it comes to "how did we get here?" Teachers aren't allowed to even direct interested students to sources of information on Creationism and Intelligent Design.

As a Christian, I have one question for proponents of Intelligent Design. When did we get our souls? Did God watch pond scum turn into proto-humans and say that they were good enough and give them souls? Or did He give proto-humans souls and THEN call them good?

Then I had a very frightening thought. I know its impossible, but if a person with no soul walked up to you on the street, would you be able to tell? I think it would present in the eyes. They're the windows to the soul, but if there was no soul to see...what would they look like? Like a corpse's eyes? If the world is dark outside, the windows are still there, but you can't see through them.