(January 7, 2016 at 9:10 am)Rhythm Wrote: The general notion, is that the "soul" in the afterlife is an analog for the body, regarding senses. We hear of the beautiful sights in heaven, the beautiful music, the pleasures and happiness. There are, apparently, spirit ears, and spirit eyes, spirit tongues and spirit hands for your spirit self. The body (and brain) seems a bit redundant in that context, but fuck it, these people are crazy, what did you expect?
That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard.
(January 7, 2016 at 9:28 am)ChadWooters Wrote: Contrary to the claims of the OP, there is no proof that mechanistic brain functions actually produce quality and/or intentionally, as opposed to to say mediating those phenomena. At best, materialism can only offer a promissory note of future discovery based on intellectual precommitments.
I'm not even sure what you're trying to say here. There has been no scientific reason to believe that brain functioning is not produced and regulated through material and natural processes . In fact, all scientific evidence points to the contrary. Simply typing out a bunch of pseudo-science using impressive terminology doesn't make it any more credible or realistic.
Theists seem to put an awful lot of weight on ballsy claims like this: "We are right. We got all this shit figured out. Just you wait, science will eventually catch up to us and prove all that we're saying."
You seem to forget, through the ages it has always been religion trying to catch up with science, and not the other way around.
