(September 11, 2015 at 12:51 am)Lek Wrote:(September 10, 2015 at 10:59 pm)Thena323 Wrote: I'm not aware of any evidence that suggests that consciousness can continue after the brain dies.I've never heard of any respected individual seriously claiming that they encountered Santa or the Easter bunny, but large numbers of respected people, with no mental illnesses, have seriously testified to having supernatural experiences and encounters with God. Do these testimonies open you up in any to the possibility of the supernatural and/or life after death? Or must you personally verify and test their claims by natural means?
I'm not aware of any verifiable accounts of supernatural occurrences taking place, at any point in time, ever and I have never witnessed a such an occurrence, personally.
I have no reason to think that something supernatural occurs after death, for those reasons.
Large numbers of Hindus testify to having encounters with various Hindu gods. Does that mean that the Hindu gods exist? If not, then such "experiences" count as nothing for the existence of any god.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
