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Is There Life After Death? Scientist Attempts to Explain What Happens to the Human ‘Soul’

Oct. 29, 2012 11:27am

Over the past two years, the afterlife has been a subject of increased conversation in media. Most recently, Dr. Eben Alexander, a neurosurgeon, shared his own story of an alleged elevation to heaven during a near-death experience. TheBlaze has also told Colton Burpo’s story, the young boy who claims that heaven is, indeed, a real locality. Now, Dr. Stuart Hameroff, a scientist who studies quantum consciousness, is attempting to explain what happens to the “soul” after death.

In a recent episode of “Through the Wormhole,” a series on the Science television channel that is narrated by actor Morgan Freeman, Hameroff shared his views on life after death. According to the scientist, who is professor emeritus at the Departments of Anesthesiology and Psychology and the Director of the Center of Consciousness Studies at the University of Arizona, understanding consciousness is key to comprehending a variety of elements that continue to attract controversy.

Specifically, better understanding the dynamic would help to simmer debate surrounding what occurs during near-death experiences and what happens to the soul after death. Consciousness, according to Hameroff, is essentially part of the universe at large, a concept that, at the surface, is relatively complex. The Huffington Post has more about the researcher’s controversial theories:

According to Dr. Hameroff, in a near-death experience, when the heart stops beating, the blood stops flowing, and the microtubules lose their quantum state, the quantum information in the microtubules isn’t destroyed. It’s distributed to the universe at large, and if the patient is revived, the quantum information can go back to the microtubules. In this event, the patient says they had something like a near-death experience, i.e. they saw white light or a tunnel or floated out of their body. In the event that the patient is not revived, “it’s possible that the quantum information can can exist outside the body, perhaps indefinitely, as a soul,” he said.

Hameroff essentially believes that the human soul may actually be constructed from the very fabric of the universe. Quantum information, which purportedly exists within each person, in the scientist’s view, can potentially live beyond the body.

“I believe that consciousness, or its immediate precursor proto-consciousness, has been in the universe all along, perhaps from the Big Bang,” Hammeroff explains.

Here’s more about the theory, below:

This is especially fascinating, considering Alexander’s story, which was also captured for an episode of “Through the Wormhole.” You can read his story here or watch him explain it below:

Considering all of these elements, those who embrace religion may see these stories and theories as explanations of a system that is overseen by God. After all, if there is, indeed, a higher power who created the universe, why wouldn’t the human souls he also formed be an integral part of that system?

The theories are certainly fascinating, as they add to the overarching discussion and debate about what happens after death.

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Comments (196)

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  • FlagWavingPatriot
    Posted on October 29, 2012 at 1:35pm

    Try the Bible. It’s all in there.

    Next topic.

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    • DeavonReye
      Posted on October 29, 2012 at 3:22pm

      ……right there with fire breathing dragons, unicorns, lightning that obeys deities, donkeys that see angels and talk to their rider, a man who looses his strength because his **** is cut, . . . etc.

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    • Ilikepeople
      Posted on October 29, 2012 at 5:01pm

      DeavonReye,
      I’m getting tired of dealing with this. When the mountains melt, and it’s written that God has a great killing it means that the population has greatly jumped in numbers. When the mountain melts then all the bullocks and unicorns come down for the feast. that means unicorns are people who worship one spiritual God, and they do for the lord, and the bullocks are also the kind who will chew on the things happening around them.

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    • theotherberean
      Posted on October 29, 2012 at 5:12pm

      For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. 1 Cor 1:18

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    • WhiteFang
      Posted on October 29, 2012 at 5:52pm

      Genesis 2:17 “But as for the tree of the knowledge of good and bad you must not eat from it, for in the day you eat from it you will positively die.”

      Genesis 3:19 “in the sweat of your face you will eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For dust you are and to dust you will return.”

      So, when we die we are actually dead, and we return to the dust. Let’s not invent belief’s that is beyond God’s simple statements.

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    • theotherberean
      Posted on October 29, 2012 at 6:06pm

      Hey @WITEFANG, how are you?

      What are you saying? Something other than this…?

      1 Cor 15:52in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we will be changed. 53For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.

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    • Valuable
      Posted on October 29, 2012 at 6:13pm

      I was going to write almost the exact same thing!!

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    • WhiteFang
      Posted on October 29, 2012 at 6:15pm

      There will also be a resurrection of those who have died:

      Do not marvel at this, because the hour is coming in which all those in the memorial tombs will hear his voice29and come out, those who did good things to a resurrection of life, those who practiced vile things to a resurrection of judgment.30I cannot do a single thing of my own initiative; just as I hear, I judge; and the judgment that I render is righteous, because I seek, not my own will, but the will of him that sent me. (John 5:28-30)

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    • WhiteFang
      Posted on October 29, 2012 at 6:55pm

      theotherberean,

      I will again try to have a constructive dialogue with you. But if you dive into insults, or arrogance, I will not continue with you.

      Re: 1 Cor 15:52, That scripture is referring to a instantaneous spiritual resurrection to heaven for Christ’s anointed brothers, those who will be kings and priests with our Lord Jesus Christ. Revelation 5:6-10

      Then, at a future time, in God’s Kingdom, the rest of redeemed mankind will experience a physical resurrection to the paradise earth. Revelation 21:1-4

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    • jcldwl
      Posted on October 29, 2012 at 6:58pm

      Yes it is all in the bible so this story should not be categorized under faith but under science. Science will never find the answer to heaven because it takes faith to understand and comprehend it. Science simply tries to find ways to debunk it because for some reason scientists think they are smarter than everyone else.

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    • ModerationIsBest
      Posted on October 29, 2012 at 8:37pm

      Why is a scientist trying to figure out what happens to the “soul” when a “soul” hasn’t been proven to exist?

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    • YellowFin
      Posted on October 29, 2012 at 9:47pm

      ModerationIsBest,

      Before we speak on any subject, moderation is best.

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    • yerffej
      Posted on October 29, 2012 at 10:54pm

      My exact thoughts, wave. Amen

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    • binge_thinker
      Posted on October 30, 2012 at 12:12am

      @ Patriot

      Isn’t it ironic that atheists accuse religious people of being unrealistic and intolerant, but end up making fun of religious people and insult them at every opportunity.
      And that is celebrating ” reason.” Sounds more like hypocrisy to me.

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    • sanpedro
      Posted on October 30, 2012 at 1:13am

      Experience trumps book learning. Learn to see your soul fire. Exhale over a mirror to see which of 5 shapes from your bottom 5 spinal energy centers your breath makes (square if from tailbone, triangle tip up if at navel, round at heart, etc). Get diagnostic breath chart from 5StarBreath.com or google Rama Prasad’s Science of Breath. Your soul print is visible as a 5 rayed blue star, one ray for each spinal center/breath shape, with each ray’s brightness and length corresponding to relative strength of your 5 energy fields around you: physical, pranic/aura/breath, electrical mind, magnetic heart and etheric spirit. Breath exercises are key to raising your energy to spinal center at heart level where spiritual growth and understanding beyond mere book/bible level happens. It also balances out your left and right brain activity.
      I resonated on many points with the afterlife vision of first being a worm (Sumerians believed hell was full of dead in earthworm form doomed to blindly eat dust) then hearing music then seeing light then being a speck on a butterfly (4 wings symbolic of quadripolar tube torus magnetic energy field generated by our heart center, the CROSS in 3D. See HeartMath.com and videos by physicist Nassim Haramein).
      If you want to hear the truth instead of just reading the pack of lies out put out by media/internet, get your magnetic energy field STRONG & stay heart centered. We are being tested by these lying crap weasels to see if we’re ripe for Truth. a

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    • DeavonReye
      Posted on October 30, 2012 at 8:47am

      ilikepeople, . . . that’s the rub, huh! When something doesn’t make sense to you, . . . it “must have been an analogy”. Welcome to your faith. What it IS. . . . . is a religion with congnative dissonance when faced with actual scientific evidence that is contrary to long held beliefs. Spinning previous stories to “mean something else”, like “messianic prophesy”.

      Regardless, even if I gave you that “unicorns were analogies”, . . . that doesn’t answer all the other absurd notions [some mentioned in my post above].

      Having said that, does this mean “there is no god”? Well, that is still up in the air. Can’t be proven or disproved. What it CAN say is. . . those who wrote the bible wrote out of ignorance of the natural world, being swayed by the superstitions of those times [many cultures were equally as superstitious]. Were you run into problems is exhalting the bible as an idol to where “it all MUST be true, or none of it is”. Why not see it as a history of how people once thought, wrong as it was? Should that damage your “faith”? I don’t see how it should. Remember, . . . MEN wrote the bible.

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    • OneofMany
      Posted on October 30, 2012 at 1:38pm

      @FWP – you are right on.. it’s all there in the bible plain as day. Not only that, this scientist (of which I am one) fails to explain the experiences of people who ACCURATELY communicate conversations they heard in other rooms in their near death experience… so it’s more than just seeing old memories of grandma or seeing white light… I’m not saying those things don’t happen…I’m just saying the evidence points to more.

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    • snafued
      Posted on October 30, 2012 at 10:04pm

      yep the god of my father and his father…said, in no uncertain terms, that you WILL stand before him ( if ya even make past saint peter at the gates )…and be judged for the life you have lived…if ya been a douchebag or a lib ( oxymoron )…well …outs ya go

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    • snafued
      Posted on October 30, 2012 at 10:06pm

      ummm

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    • FoxholeAtheist
      Posted on November 14, 2012 at 2:07pm

      Ilkpeople, we are also getting a bit tired of your kind. We are here to stay and we will not tolerate you any longer. Obama won so just shut up and sit down and let the grown ups talk.

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  • truthnstuff
    Posted on October 29, 2012 at 1:24pm

    Some of the most educated people are “idiots” and attention hogs.

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  • The-Monk
    Posted on October 29, 2012 at 12:59pm

    The known can never measure the unknown….

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  • marvlus
    Posted on October 29, 2012 at 12:52pm

    The only way to know for sure is to die.

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  • tomizzle2
    Posted on October 29, 2012 at 12:49pm

    Interesting the way everyone that claims to believe the bible discounts the biblical acct
    that refers to where the soul dies when the person dies, “the dead know nothing”. All of
    these so-called intellects have to do is disclaim the bible. Seems like something as simple
    as the biblical acct. is much more palpable, especially if you claim to believe any if the bible.

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    • ThisGuysNameIsRandy
      Posted on November 2, 2012 at 10:19pm

      If your refering to soul sleep I know what you mean. I used to believe in that. The body and the soul are 2 different things. The body returns to the dust waiting for the rapture (resurrection) but the soul and spirit go to heaven or hell.

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  • Jobeycool
    Posted on October 29, 2012 at 12:44pm

    It is totally amazing how people pretend to know for a fact the origin of life when the bible even says it is a mystery and people must have faith to believe in God.Now watch all the faith haters go nuts because someone believes in faith.

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  • OniKaze
    Posted on October 29, 2012 at 12:42pm

    Is there life after Death?? I would like to hope so… But somehow I doubt it…. I make no effort to hide that fact that I don’t buy into “man-made” religions… God is not found in some book or building… He is in all of us, and everything around us… THAT is all that matters…

    I would like to think that after we die, everything we have done won’t amount to nothing…. But THAT is a possibility we ALL must be prepared for… (just in case..).

    LIVE Life, LOVE Life, and don’t allow room to REGRET ANYTHING!! Whether you believe in “God” or not, we should enjoy the life we were given, and celebrate the potential of the world we have…

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    • Eastinfection
      Posted on October 29, 2012 at 1:08pm

      ONIKAZE…

      Try this one on….

      I believe the “Id / ego/ soul” part of you exists in a constant that goes in all directions at all times. Infinite past and present activity… Picture it like this..
      When you die… you’re born again as the exact same person and live the exact same life you just did.
      “Predestination” if you will….. But you actually have the freewill the whole time to make different choices….. but you never do because your always you… The “Id” part of you is dying and being born again an infinite amount of times per second in an infinite amount of dimensions…

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on October 29, 2012 at 1:19pm

      Hi East,

      How many mushrooms at that Allman Bros concert???

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    • Eastinfection
      Posted on October 29, 2012 at 1:59pm

      lol Monk…

      um.. there were a few other times as well..

      Combine that with a Jesuit High school education
      followed by switching majors 3 times from Fine Arts to Literature to Philosophy before bailing on the whole thing and enrolling in Agricultural School…

      ….and you find yourself often “measuring the known vs the unknown” hypothetically in your head..

      I have many more crackpot theories about all sorts of human nature related subjects.. ;)

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    • oldguy77
      Posted on October 29, 2012 at 2:02pm

      One would be wise to believe,since in the end the believer would lose nothing, unbelievers everything,if proved wrong.

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    • TRUTHSENSE
      Posted on October 29, 2012 at 3:21pm

      ONIKAZE, where did you learn all this? If it came from your brain, it sounds like a another “man made religion” to me.

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on October 29, 2012 at 3:47pm

      Hi East,

      What do you suppose would happen to someone who actually figured “it” all out?

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    • theotherberean
      Posted on October 29, 2012 at 5:17pm

      For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. John 3:16

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    • ModerationIsBest
      Posted on October 29, 2012 at 8:42pm

      @OLDGUY77

      I(an atheist) am in the exact same situation as you (I presume a Christian?) if Allah is God.

      You are making a false comparison here and you would not “lose nothing” if wrong.

      If you are wrong, you spent your whole life living a lie and being an unrelenting hypocrite by saying other Gods were wrong but yours was the TRUE God.

      If you like being a hypocrite, that is your choice.

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    • INTHEBROTHERHOOD
      Posted on October 30, 2012 at 9:55pm

      at ok.God is found in every book and building. Dont b mislead…by the way, its not God who we seek. Jesus was our redeemer. and through His spirit we can be saved

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  • ChrisDiamond
    Posted on October 29, 2012 at 12:42pm

    With all the information about how neurotransmitters like dopamine, seratonin and norepinephrine, and other chemicals released in the brain during NDEs like Ketamine and DMT, we should give no credence to these fantasies when we can explain these experiences with measurable, biochemical scientific data.

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    • SquidVetOhio
      Posted on October 29, 2012 at 1:16pm

      You right. I mean, who is this guy? He’s only the professor emeritus at the Departments of Anesthesiology and Psychology and the Director of the Center of Consciousness Studies at the University of Arizona.

      We should discount all of this and listen to you, an anonymous poster on a news story. You’re clearly WAY smarter than him.

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    • leuken
      Posted on October 29, 2012 at 2:15pm

      Chris,

      I am very interested in DMT. It is a highly powerful hallucinogenic compound released by the Pineal gland in the center of our brains. Those who have ingested DMT/Ayahuasca have had similar experiences of those who have hade NDEs. However, the NDE experiences seem even more vivid and real than anything. It’s easy to assume that this is an easy scientific explanation to it all.

      My question is: WHY? Why is there a gland in the center of our brains that invokes a dramatic transcendent experience? Why do we have this biological “God detector” in our makeup? The Evolutionary Biologist would say something like “well, you see, we evolved this for some reason, maybe so we wouldn’t fear death.” That seems a silly notion to me.

      Maybe there is a reason for this and NDEs are real and we are experiencing a transcention to a different form. Why is it so difficult for scientific-minded people to imagine possibilities outside of conventional wisdom?

      We as humans have consciousness and a soul that loves and creates. Why would we assume that we are the first beings in the Universe to do these things?

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  • Watermain
    Posted on October 29, 2012 at 12:35pm

    Fascinating that a guy with that incredible title at some university can explain away with scientific mumbo-jumbo something that most people fundamentally either believe or they don’t believe. I don’t remember learning that the microtubules contain quantum information. I thought they had to do with cell reproduction. Oh well, I am not a professor emeritus of anything.

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  • hi
    Posted on October 29, 2012 at 12:33pm

    It’s the mind vs the brain. That is a huge difference that scientists cannot explain.

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    • beckistheking
      Posted on October 29, 2012 at 12:39pm

      LOL. Please! my ribs!! Who fed you that hogwash?

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    • Eastinfection
      Posted on October 29, 2012 at 12:56pm

      BECK…

      i think Hi’s point is that the relationship between the “Id” and the “organ” is unique and cannot be fully explained scientifically without making a significant amount of assumptions and suppositions…

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    • TRUTHSENSE
      Posted on October 29, 2012 at 3:31pm

      The mind is who a person is. The brain, if all is working properly, is able to express the mind, or the person. Do you think you can see yourself in a mirror? You only see the “house” that you, your mind, lives in. You really don’t see “you”, who you really are. Death is simply when the “house” is no longer inhabitable and the real you leaves to spend eternity in one of two places.

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    • JoMama4
      Posted on October 29, 2012 at 5:45pm

      “You may have mind control, but I have brain control.”

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  • TEIN
    Posted on October 29, 2012 at 12:24pm

    Genesis: 4 ¶These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens,
    5 And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.

    Why is it so hard to comprehend that there is spiritual matter and physical matter and that each has their own set of governing laws?

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  • chips1
    Posted on October 29, 2012 at 12:24pm

    On the other hand, Obama is the exception to the rule. Lucifer doesn’t have one.

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  • Calm Voice of Reason
    Posted on October 29, 2012 at 12:13pm

    Here is an excellent dismantling of the “Heaven Is Real” account that made all the news recently:

    http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/this-must-be-heaven

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  • louie louie
    Posted on October 29, 2012 at 12:12pm

    No atheist has been willing to take me up on my bet, which is this:
    If I am right, and there is life after death, then you will be my slave for eternity.
    If you are right, and there is no life after death, then I will be yours.
    Any takers?

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    • beckistheking
      Posted on October 29, 2012 at 12:15pm

      That’s just stupid. That’s why you’re feeling so lonely there sport. wow

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    • OniKaze
      Posted on October 29, 2012 at 12:36pm

      I would say that is a one sided bet (which would explain why NO-ONE will take you up on it…)

      If you win, you get a slave (which I am sure God would LOVE you for… Enslaving someone’s soul… What a “kind” thing to do over a silly bet) and if you lose, NOTHING happens…

      So you have no skin in the game (so to speak)… No wonder not a single person would take you up on it… There is NO give-or-take on your part… Just take…. Only Obama supporters would be so stupid..

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    • SmithandWesson
      Posted on October 29, 2012 at 12:46pm

      Just tell the atheists since they don’t believe in God, for their sake, they better be right.

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    • DeavonReye
      Posted on October 29, 2012 at 3:17pm

      And if some OTHER god or goddess was the true one. . . .or ones, . . . and not Yahweh, . . . what will YOU do?

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    • God_Is_Not
      Posted on October 29, 2012 at 3:34pm

      What if you’re wrong about Allah?

      Now all the sudden we have the same answer.

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    • Words_of_the_Buddah
      Posted on October 30, 2012 at 6:44pm

      I would take that, but it would have to be modified.
      If there is a life after death in the Christian sense of it, I will gladly become your slave.
      However, if there is an afterlife in the sense that I believe in, that is, Reincarnation, then you must choose to be reborn as an untouchable in India.
      How about that?

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    • torxed
      Posted on November 4, 2012 at 6:39pm

      I will take that bet anytime or place without hesitation.

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  • Calm Voice of Reason
    Posted on October 29, 2012 at 12:08pm

    Stopped reading after “quantum consciousness”. Quackery, through and through.

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    • beckistheking
      Posted on October 29, 2012 at 12:14pm

      It is absolute nonsense. Trying to use science to support claims of the supernatural is ludicrous.

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    • SocialistSlayer
      Posted on October 29, 2012 at 12:21pm

      There is some quackery alright – The part where he talks about the bogus “Big Bang Theory ” !

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    • leuken
      Posted on October 29, 2012 at 2:27pm

      Sir,

      You do realize that the notion that the Earth revolved around the Sun was, at one point in time, “Quackery”

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    • God_Is_Not
      Posted on October 29, 2012 at 3:35pm

      Germ theory was also ‘quackery’ at one point.

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    • Calm Voice of Reason
      Posted on October 29, 2012 at 4:54pm

      @Leuken: No, ’twas “heresy”.

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    • Chatikh
      Posted on October 30, 2012 at 1:25am

      The difference between this and all those other theories is that all of those had evidence to support them when they were proposed. This has none.

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  • COFemale
    Posted on October 29, 2012 at 12:06pm

    As one who had an out of body experience, I can tell you it is an interesting feeling. I had the flu. I went to bed and before I knew it I was floating above my bed looking down. It did not last long. I was not in bed long enough to have fallen asleep. I was lying on my back so I think my heart stopped briefly. I have a mild case of sleep apnea and sometimes jolt myself awake gasping for a breath. I now sleep on my side so that does not happen often, but sometimes even now just lying on my back watching TV and drifting asleep I stop breathing.

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    • hi
      Posted on October 29, 2012 at 12:24pm

      Sleep apnea causes very serious medical problems.

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    • Eastinfection
      Posted on October 29, 2012 at 12:25pm

      I had an out-of-body experience once, too…

      though it was after eating a bunch of mushrooms at an Allman Bros. show….

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    • hi
      Posted on October 29, 2012 at 12:35pm

      PS you can treat sleep apnea is what I was trying to say! Need to get treatment!

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  • NILAP
    Posted on October 29, 2012 at 11:57am

    Someday a Thomas Edison like scientist will create a way where all folks can experience the actual ‘light at the end of the tunnel’ or the light emanating from the door or gate of heaven. We will not actual be in heaven but be in the presence of heaven before us.

    This profound experience will change the priorities of all humanity, where each soul will continually be looking out for the welfare of all others. For example, a ‘Donald Trump’ would realize that living surrounded by wealth and riches is meaningless based on experiencing the presence of Heaven. He would use his talents and we all would to make sure all humanity is cared for. Right now, humanity as a whole does not have this consciousness – hence the divide between the left and the right.

    This light that a Thomas Edison type figure or group of scientist inspired by God will illuminate the souls of all humanity. Crime would be a thing of the past, having experienced the light of Heaven and the innate awareness, not belief, that God exists and loves us.

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    • NILAP
      Posted on October 29, 2012 at 12:01pm

      In summary, Heaven will truly be on earth and we will all know first-hand without the need for belief that we live forever.

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    • Eastinfection
      Posted on October 29, 2012 at 12:23pm

      Sounds like the movie “Flat-liners”

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  • Lotus503
    Posted on October 29, 2012 at 11:54am

    I’m not sure about life after death…but I’m reasonably positive about death after life….

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    • OniKaze
      Posted on October 29, 2012 at 12:37pm

      Too True

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    • Thomas
      Posted on October 29, 2012 at 1:15pm

      The death philosophy is the selfish view of life and determined to be a fact because of a majority. Few that are that find the way that leads to life.However we must reap what we sow.

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  • voting-for-romney
    Posted on October 29, 2012 at 11:47am

    Don’t you think God gets insulted, every time he hears the phrase “why are we here”? That questions just pretends He does not exist, yet find one highly intelligent person, who thinks they are smarter than the rest of us, not ask this question?

    Here is the answer to why you are here, God said be fruitful and MULTIPLY? Get busy people? :)

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    • ChildOfTheKing
      Posted on October 29, 2012 at 11:55am

      wrong. WE ARE HERE TO SERVE THE CREATOR………..duh.

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    • hatchetjob
      Posted on October 29, 2012 at 12:04pm

      CHILDOFTHEKING, Right on, to serve and know God.

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    • beckistheking
      Posted on October 29, 2012 at 12:06pm

      Nonsense. Mixing the term science with a lot of superstitious, unproven nonsense changes nothing. This is all hogwash, just like all religions. Superstition, hogwash, false narratives that have never and will never be supported by proof and facts. Grow up people. It’s 2012.

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    • Eastinfection
      Posted on October 29, 2012 at 12:20pm

      VOTING…

      “Don’t you think God gets insulted, every time he hears the phrase “why are we here”?…”

      No, i don’t…
      In fact, i think God would be pleased to hear this question asked as often as it is..

      i think figuring out “why we are here” IS why we are here…

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    • ChildOfTheKing
      Posted on October 29, 2012 at 2:08pm

      @beckistheking: I wish I were a fly on the wall during your last breaths. I will just bet you that YOU WILL BELIEVE IN GOD THEN. Oh, BTW, it is NOT enough to just believe in God; even the demons in hell believe in God. It is ONLY thru Jesus Christ’s sacrifice on the cross for you and me, that you will be saved, but ONLY IF YOU PERSONALLY ASK JESUS TO SAVE YOU.

      Christianity is THE ONLY RELIGION TO OFFER MANKIND THE A SACRIFICE OF GOD’S SON.
      No other religion on the earth offers that. DON’T YOU THINK THAT THIS REQUIRES YOU TO DO MORE HOMEWORK ON WHY YOU NEED THE SAVIOR TO ENTER HEAVEN?

      Smart men and women, who actually believe in something greater than themselves, will do the research on this and come to a viable decision that will affect their eternal abode somewhere.

      AND, if you really believe that you SLEEP and never awake again, then you are saying that GOD MADE US IN VAIN and that the sacrifice of His Son, Jesus, was a lie.

      BOY, WILL YOU BE SURPRISED WHEN YOU GO TO YOUR GRAVE.
      Hope it works out for you, BUT I KNOW IT WON’T.

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    • oldguy77
      Posted on October 29, 2012 at 2:19pm

      Thats the trouble with people who are gay.They cant do math.They can not multiply.

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    • Chatikh
      Posted on October 30, 2012 at 1:35am

      @OLDGUY77

      Same with old people, lets take away their rights too.

      Just because some people don’t have children on their own doesn’t make it unnatural. It means people come in all forms.

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  • MrButcher
    Posted on October 29, 2012 at 11:45am

    Well, there is only one way to find out….

    We all have it coming, kid.

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  • SquidVetOhio
    Posted on October 29, 2012 at 11:42am

    Interesting. I’ve always believed that God works withing the laws of science that He created. A “miracle” is nothing more than proof that we don’t always know every aspect of science and God does. Perhaps there are exceptions to the laws of physics we have not yet discovered? Does not this happen all the time in science? Maybe there is a scientific explanation to the Red Sea parting or other miracles in the Bible. I have no problem believing this.

    If the people of Moses’ day seen today’s scientific achievements, wouldn’t they believe them to be “miracles”?

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    • ChildOfTheKing
      Posted on October 29, 2012 at 11:50am

      Romans 1:22: Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools
      Barnes’ Notes on the Bible:
      Professing themselves to be wise – This was the common boast of the philosophers of antiquity. The very word by which they chose to be called, “philosophers,” means literally “lovers of wisdom.” That it was their boast that they were wise, is well known; compare Romans 1:14; 1 Corinthians 1:19, 1 Corinthians 1:20, 1 Corinthians 1:22; 1 Corinthians 3:19; 2 Corinthians 11:19.

      They became fools – Compare Jeremiah 8:8-9. They became really foolish in their opinions and conduct. There is something particularly pungent and cutting in this remark, and as true as it is pungent. In what way they evinced their folly, Paul proceeds immediately to state. Sinners of all kinds are frequently spoken of as fools in the Scriptures. In the sense in which it is thus used, the word is applied to them as void of understanding or moral sense; as idolaters, and as wicked; Psalm 14:1; Proverbs 26:4; Proverbs 1:17, Proverbs 1:22; Proverbs 14:8-9. The senses in which this word here is applied to the pagan are,

      (1) That their speculations and doctrines were senseless; and,
      (2) That their conduct was corrupt.

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    • beckistheking
      Posted on October 29, 2012 at 12:17pm

      Only a fool would believe ancient writings of superstitious ignorant people are factual. They are not.

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    • SquidVetOhio
      Posted on October 29, 2012 at 1:11pm

      @BECKISTHEKING

      You stay up all night coming up with that brilliant response? Freaking troll.

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    • SquidVetOhio
      Posted on October 29, 2012 at 1:23pm

      Oh btw, those “silly” ancient writings have been proven to be historically accurate in every way we can measure them. Ask an archaeologist. Also, the amount of Old Testament prophecies that have been fulfilled EXACTLY the way they were prophesied is statistically a miracle. But, I guess you don’t believe in that new fangled MATH thing do you?

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    • The_Knower
      Posted on October 29, 2012 at 1:36pm

      @SquidVetOhio

      You can’t just say that the prophecies were fulfilled; you have to point them out and demonstrate them. Otherwise, you are just pulling proof from your behind.

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    • DeavonReye
      Posted on October 29, 2012 at 2:18pm

      Uh, . . . I’ve seen otherwise . . . on the “historical evidence”. SOME real cities or locations, sure. But so what! That prove nothing at all. Other “mystical writings” used real locations. Are they automatically true? No.

      And messianic prophesy is hardly credible or compelling either. VAGUE parts of stories [not the whole] can be made to say anything, if you spin them the right way. Parts that DON’T match are “not a part of the prophesy”, conveniently.

      No, there is nothing compelling in the bible.

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    • theotherberean
      Posted on October 29, 2012 at 5:33pm

      Question: “How do I know the Bible is not just mythology?”

      Answer: http://www.gotquestions.org/Bible-mythology.html

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  • PATTY HENRY
    Posted on October 29, 2012 at 11:40am

    Yes. Thank God.

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  • Thighmaster
    Posted on October 29, 2012 at 11:39am

    This is what I’ve been saying all along..

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  • NILAP
    Posted on October 29, 2012 at 11:38am

    I would like to read his explanation of what happens to a newborn, fetus or young child if they die. Does their quantum information progress and grow as a soul ?

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  • Ravings of a lunatic planet
    Posted on October 29, 2012 at 11:33am

    Just ask someone that has had a NDE……..they will tell you that they know God is real………the hell with these scientists…………maybe they should just stick to Global Warming…..something that they really know all about………..give me a break. ugh.

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    • ChildOfTheKing
      Posted on October 29, 2012 at 11:53am

      Yes, these are SECULAR WISE MEN, which does not mean they are SPIRITUAL WISE MEN.
      Frankly, I would prefer the 2nd one over the 1st one because ETERNITY IS A VERY LOOOONNNNNGGGG TIME NOT TO BELIEVE IN GOD, THE CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSE, MANKIND, AND OUR SOUL.

      If you believe in the Big Bang or you do not believe in God, then eternity will be very long for you WITHOUT GOD. So, this is what I tell those people who do not believe in God and divine providence:

      If YOU ARE RIGHT in believing there is no God, then I will have lost NOTHING.
      If I AM RIGHT in believing THERE IS A GOD, then YOU WILL HAVE LOST IT ALL.

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    • beckistheking
      Posted on October 29, 2012 at 12:12pm

      Childofthkin, you’re use of threats and fear tactics are silly. You’re all wrapped up in all kinds of superstitious beliefs that are false. They’re unproven. They’re stories made up by men who never even used dental floss and who thought the world was flat. This article is also a load of hogwash. This so-called scientis has no proof to support his theory and he should be ashamed of himself for behaving so unprofessionally. We people die, they’re dead just like every other living thing. We’re no different and to think we are is the height of arrogance and ignorance.

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    • louie louie
      Posted on October 29, 2012 at 1:07pm

      BECKISTHEKING, the height of arrogance and ignorance is to go around bombing everyone else’s posts calling them false, silly, superstitious, and hogwash just because YOU don’t agree with them. You’re not God, and you’re certainly not all-knowing. To assume you know what happens after death is beyond arrogance. Do you also think water that evaporates is gone forever just because you can’t see it any more? If you were honest, the most you could say is that you don’t know what happens after death. Your claims are nothing more than your beliefs. You are free to believe whatever you want, but don’t try to pass off your belief (or non-belief) as fact or science. It’s nothing of the sort.

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    • DeavonReye
      Posted on October 29, 2012 at 2:13pm

      But “dead and gone, like any other lifeform” has actual evidence. “Living in a blissful or hellish afterlife” doesn’t. Yes, people are free to believe what they want, . . . but when one side tries to use scare tactics to convert, you’ve already lost the war. If it has merit, . . . it will stand on its own without scary imagery. If it doesn’t have merit, . . . use of threats is a common theme.

      There is arrogance on both the side of the atheist AND the theist. That’s why “agnostic” is the stance I take. I lean towards “no gods”, but still consider the possibility. However, “just believing to keep me out of hell” would never be an honest one . . . unless all there IS. . . is a “believe and worship me or die horribly” type of being out there.

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    • ChildOfTheKing
      Posted on October 29, 2012 at 2:17pm

      @beckistheking: Threat? Huh Trolling again are you, Encinom?

      I get my info from the Holy Bible, the ONLY book in the world that offers God’s Son as the ultimate sacrifice to mankind, IF THEY CHOOSE TO BELIEVE SO. No one is forcing you to do anything and I certainly am not threatening anymore, but, the fact does remain that if you are right, you will find out that I was wrong and whatever you believe will be proven as correct. However, if you are wrong, then you will never see or have hope of an eternal life with God, the Father.

      I feel sorry for you and it is very sad that you are so closed and narrow-minded.
      There are hundreds of pagan religions out there, but NOT ONE OFFERS GOD’S SON AS THE ULTIMATE SACRIFICE FOR MAN’S SOUL. Christianity is the ONLY one. DOESN’T THAT MAKE YOU WONDER HOW THE BIBLE WAS ABLE TO COME THIS FAR, OVER 2,000 YEARS WHEN OTHER PAGAN RELIGIONS EITHER DISAPPEARED, HAVE LIMITED FOLLOWERS WHO DEPEND ON GOOD WORKS ONLY to get them into Heaven. which is CONTRARY TO THE HOLY BIBLE?????

      It just proves that YOU KNOW ABSOLUTELY NOTHING, just like some of these so-called experts who claim there is no God.

      Look, it makes me sad that anyone will argue against God, but believe me when I say, it won’t matter to me if I die and you still aren’t a believer in a God who made you and this universe. It will be no skin off my nose. I WILL BE WITH JESUS IN HEAVEN. Where will you be? Too bad for you and I am sorry for you, as well.

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    • ChildOfTheKing
      Posted on October 29, 2012 at 2:24pm

      All of you:
      You shadow your personal vengence against God with calling us, who tried to get you to open your eyes, as threats. THOSE ARE YOUR WORDS, not mine.

      However, the Bible does state THAT THERE IS ONLY 1 WAY TO HEAVEN AND THAT IS ONLY THRU JESUS CHRIST. If you call it a threat, then take that up with God. HE GIVES YOU A CHOICE so stop whining that He or I is threatening you. CHOICES. We all have them, don’t we.

      If you choose not to believe, fine. BUT KNOW THIS, YOU ARE CALLING GOD A LIAR IF YOU TELL THE REST OF US THAT THE BIBLE IS NOT TRUE OR THAT HE DOES NOT EXIST. You will answer to HIM, not me.

      God will NOT be mocked, says the Bible and He certainly will try, until the day you die, to get your attention, to draw you to HIM, because HE LOVES YOU THAT MUCH. God cannot and will not allow evil into Heaven and that is why you must make a choice between Him or not Him. God is perfect and without sin. YOU AND I ARE so that is why mankind needed a sacrifice to take care of all those sins, present, future, and past. WITHOUT THAT SAVIOR, you and I would be doomed to eternity elsewhere (even I do not like to say where).

      The devil would just LOVE to keep you from believing, which means HE ALREADY HAS YOU.
      I hope you will dig into the Bible and find out what God wants for your life. Start in the Book of John in the New Testament. It will tell you God plan for mankind and what you need to do to see Him and be with Him for eternity.

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    • DeavonReye
      Posted on October 29, 2012 at 3:12pm

      childoftheking, your words just don’t hold any water these days. The christian message expanded BECAUSE of threats and violence when other religions were equally valid, yet were conquered by the more powerful armies of Rome, when it “converted to christainity”. And when you know HOW the bible was put together and how the Hebrews were before christianity rewrote much of it, you can only see it as the works of man.

      You mention that christianity is the “only one with a sacrificed god for sins”. So what! It is immoral to even REQUIRE a sacrifice [something dying bloody] before a “powerful god is satisfied”. It is barbaric. The very ideology SCREAMS human invention, in fact. . . . as many of the concepts in the bible prove as well.

      Feel free to see my response as “anger at god”. It is absurd for you to conclude that, however. First you must prove that “a god” exists. Then you must show that “a god actually interacts with the natural world”. Then that it is actually one that CARES for humans. Finally that ANY works of man [written language] could fully explain, without misunderstanding and personal influences, this type of being . . . that NEVER shows itself in the first place! The words you read were from a man’s mind. That’s it. Prove otherwise.

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    • theotherberean
      Posted on October 29, 2012 at 6:00pm

      @DEVON said: “That’s why “agnostic” is the stance I take. I lean towards “no gods”, but still consider the possibility.”

      I appreciate your intellectual honesty. There are no atheists in foxholes. ha

      I claimed agnostic once, but I have studied how the bible came to be for several decades now and I am convinced the Bible is everything it claims to be. I don’t believe it’s works of man. It was penned by men but it revealed itself to me as “God-Breathed” when studied in depth.

      Of course we can’t prove that God exists.That knowledge can only come from the Holy Spirit through the Gospel message and by reading the Bible. Try a Mac Arthur Study Bible. Lots of explanations, and Scripturally accurate on the important issues.

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    • mandmsgirl
      Posted on October 30, 2012 at 1:24am

      They can ask me…I died in 89, the doctor said I was dead and they were wheeling me to the morgue, one minute I (my spirit)was on the ceiling, the next minute I was in hell…If Christ had not come to me at that time I would not be alive today

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    • DeavonReye
      Posted on October 30, 2012 at 8:37am

      mandmsgirl, that runs contrary to the christian religion that says you loose your chance after death. Once you die, then the judgement, thus if you were “on your way to hell”, you were judged already and was going there. . . . . . . . . . . IF you believe the christian doctrines, of course, which I don’t.

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    • beckistheking
      Posted on October 30, 2012 at 4:54pm

      Childofthekin, your beliefs are false. Your delusions are not my burdens. You will be the one who will be surprised when you see that your mythical savior has not returned to earth when you’re nearing the end of your life. You’ll remember that I told you that myth would never become a reality too.

      The Christian myth of sacrifice to wash away sin is primitve thinking. It’s like scape-goating. Sins were placed on a goat and it was sent off into the desert to carry them away. Nonsense then and nonsense now. Superstitious claptrap. The very idea of Jesus dying for sins is repulsive and ridiculous. Utter nonsense is what it is. Just as bad as that virgin birth story and just as false.

      BTW goober, your glee from the thought of another fellow human being being tortured for eternity is very typical of you so-called Jesus followers. At heart many of you are fearful, vindictive, mean-spirited people who hide behind your faith for selfish reasons. You think you’re going to get some great prize when you die because you pretended to believe in your god and a bunch of ancient writings that were cobbled together. The truth is, you will die just like everyone else and that will be the end of it. Life now is all we get. It’s better to live it free of delusion, fear and negativity than to be a slave to some collection of false beliefs. Off you go now.

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    • beckistheking
      Posted on October 30, 2012 at 5:02pm

      Childofthekin, if the only way to heaven is through Jesus, then I suppose all the people who died before Jesus did are excluded then. And what about the Neanderthals who made art, played music, buried their dead with flowers etc. and aren’t even mentioned in the Bible? They were people too. Why are they left out? The bible is not the word of any all-knowing deity. We know enough about our ancient history, science etc. to easily see that the religious narrative is false now. You have a lot of emotional issues and I truly feel pity for you. You’re brainwashed into believing false things about the supernatural realm and that’s a shame.

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    • binge_thinker
      Posted on November 1, 2012 at 8:51pm

      @ Beck King

      You seem to be under the delusion that you made a point. As to delusions and hallucinations much of Darwin’s Origin of the Species should be at the top of the unscientific list, but their is no reason to burn it. Biochemistry, genetics and the Law of Biogenesis long since indicated that Darwinian macro-evolution beyond the species level (genera, families etc.) and involving changes in morphological types as incompatible with the scientific method.

      I mean the logical failures, the obvious ignorance of Christian theology, the rant against the despotic sky bully, and let us not forget the multiple examples of argumentum ad Hominem — it was all so utterly typical . I’ve rarely seen a comedic send up of atheist irrationality so spot on as this one.

      You need to take this off Broadway my friend and embark on a national tour. I’m happy to launch a Kickstarter campaign for you. Comedy such as yours must be shared with the rest of the world.
      P.S. They’ll be laughing at you, not with you.

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