(June 3, 2015 at 5:53 am)Little Rik Wrote: The atheistic idea that the consciousness mind is a product of the brain willThat is not an "atheistic idea" it is the result of research into the brain and mind. Thus it is not the new findings that will be "smashed in pieces" but the old assumptions that you are insisting are true. We will undoubtedly learn new things that will change some of our current understanding, but the fact that the mind is a function of the brain will not. That cat is out of the bag. As for NDEs, I know that in another topic I quoted a portion of a book by Dave McRaney where he explained that we have ways to "induce" NDEs in people who are not near death. Which means that we're getting closer and closer to understanding what NDEs are and how/why they happen. Which means another of your precious mysteries will be solved, and will not required any metaphysics or spiritual woo.
have sooner or later be smashed in pieces.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould