Credible evidence for the Afterlife and Blind Woman Vicki Umipeg?

Question

http://www.near-death.com/experiences/experts04.html
Patrick Glynn, a former atheist with a Ph.D. from Harvard, argues in God: The Evidence[1] that new scientific discoveries in cosmology, psychology, and medicine add up "to a powerful--indeed, all-but-incontestable--case for ... the existence of soul, afterlife and God (p. 2)." Written in a breezy popular style without nuances or subtle arguments and with a dust cover displaying glowing endorsements from Michael Novak, Robert Bork and Hans Kong, Andrew Greeley, Sir John Templeton, and George Weigel, Glynn seems completely unaware of the recent philosophical defenses of atheism by Antony Flew, Kai Nielsen, Keith Parsons, Quentin Smith and me.

Why don't you ADMIT you CHOOSE NOT TO BELIEVE because evidence contradicts you so many many times.

Answer 1

"He definitely concluded that NDEs are not hallucinations because hallucinations are rambling, unconnected, often unintelligible and vary widely"

*BUZZ* EH, wrong. Hallucinations aren't necessarily slipshod and messy. Some people experience very clear, consistent, coherent hallucinations.

I can't take this guy seriously if he doesn't even know that.

By the way, this guy SELECTED the people he interviewed. He didn't get a random sampling, he SOUGHT THEM OUT. That throws off the objectivity of the research right there.

Oh, and I've been inches away from dying. Ask my husband. The doctors told him I probably wouldn't make it.

No white light, no long tunnel, no gods, no heaven, no hallucinations.

Answer 2

Look, here's the problem with using this kind of thing as evidence: The "evidence" isn't limited to Christianity. I could show you plenty of "near-death experiences" where people have met Muhammed, or Buddha, or the Hindu gods, and experienced things that COMPLETELY go against the Bible. There are Muslim NDE's, Buddhist NDE's, Hindu NDE's, New Age Spiritualist NDE's, and any other religion you can think of. You're telling us that we're "choosing" to not believe in this evidence, but you're the one who's choosing to ignore all those OTHER accounts. Why are they wrong? What's wrong with that "evidence"?

Atheists and agnostics have had near-death experiences, too, and only a small percentage have experienced what the Bible said they would experience. What's wrong with those accounts? Why are you ignoring THAT "evidence"?

Answer 3

I'll have you know I was part of a major research project on near-death experiences - not on their validity but on their rhetoric.

It was interesting, that such descriptions from people who were not brought up in Western Culture were completely different than the descriptions from people who were.... on the surface. The project was an exercise in rhetoric and in studying the words people used and finding meaning in their experiences, it seemed that most people experienced very, very similar things, only in the context of their dominant religion or culture.

So while I believe in an afterlife, study of non-Western NDEs shows NO evidence for your deity. This is when I came to believe all deities are metaphors for something even greater, but incomprehensible to the human mind. The mind tries to translate this into something we understand, deities and spiritual experiences. But it's all metaphor. The reality is even more mind-blowing than your particular little god!

Answer 4

This has been debated many times over. Near death experiences can be explained. They do not prove an after life exist or the YOUR GOD exists.

I am admitting it. I choose not to believe!
I am choosing not to be a delusional nut.

Again, nice try.

Answer 5

I don't mind reading and listening to anything with some provocative substance that doesn't require I believe in stories only a 5 year old could take serious.

Answer 6

It's an interesting study but there is still no proof for what you're stating. Not to mention there are studies that directly conflict this. Why are you SO determined for people to believe exactly what you do?

Answer 7

Yeah, your brain dreams some weird **** when you starve it of oxygen.

You do realize that the content of NDEs is very dependent on the culture and religion of the person having it? That is evidence that your brain is going through something, not that any particular religion is right.

Answer 8

Do you write same question, 52 times a day?

And that too has over 60% copy-pasted stuff.

I bet you haven't heard of this term, "Neurology". Look up for that and find some symptoms that match this phenomena.

Answer 9

Keep trying, your "questions" amuse me

So do the CAPS

Some guy write an book and that's proof? So then since Richard Dawkins wrote "God Delusion" god isn't real.

Answer 10

Maybe people have had so much taken away from them and their families by "god" so they lost all faith in him. Maybe we believe in something else that fills that void. Maybe religion causes more hate then love.