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Here’s what I don’t understand with this whole scenario.
Atheists, scientists et all, will, on one hand, go on and on about the mysteries of the universe and how little man really knows about it.
Psych types write reports daily about the mysteries of the mind, philosophers expend gallons of ink over the nature of consciousness and NO ONE can define what it is, how it works, including memory and perceptively how it is stored (other than ‘it’s in the brain somewhere.’
OK. Given these basic truths, How is it that these ‘brain surgeons’ can with such unflinching certainty say that things like NDEs, afterlife, yes even the well worn line GOD do NOT exist.
They admit in one breath they are clueless about a basic function of our existance, consciousness and how it works/what/where it is, and in the very next breath will tell you with total conviction that they KNOW there’s nothing after death.
Has ANYONE ever seen one of these people explain that? I mean not 100 years ago, nothing was smaller than an atom. They KNEW for a FACT it was the smallest possible thing.
The arrogance, say nothing about lack of actual science behind this grand determination astounds me.
Its all about worldview. A person who believes in the supernatural can allow for nearly all claims of the supernatural to be false without destroying the supernaturalist worldview. However, a naturalist/materialist cannot allow for even one claim of the supernatural to be true without destroying his worldview.
“They admit in one breath they are clueless about a basic function of our existance, consciousness and how it works/what/where it is, and in the very next breath will tell you with total conviction that they KNOW there’s nothing after death.”
Do you remember that terrible old movie, “Short Circuit?”
At one point, the female lead mistakes a robot for an alien. Her reaction is to beam and exclaim something like, “I knew you’d come to me.”
She thought she was so special that she would be the one the aliens would contact.
Similarly, I think a lot of people reject all religious experience on the grounds—to which they themselves may be completely oblivious—that if God were going to talk to anybody, it would be them. Or, at least, them rather than some stupid Christian.
I’d like to see some informal experiments at leftard cocktail parties, with an experimenter waiting for the right moment, then saying, “Yes, He spoke to me and not to you.” I’ll bet the reactions would be revealing.