(April 11, 2011 at 11:03 am)Welsh cake Wrote: I don't care if Heaven has fancy automatic gates since the state/place hasn't been demonstrated to exist.
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there's no evidence or valid rational reason to think people live beyond biological death
If we're looking for "evidence", then that's a scientific issue: we'll probably have to wait a thousand years and assume that in these years the scientists would be able to create a portal to the other realm, provided that it exists, or somehow get to prove that the other realm does not exist. Likewise, we'll have to wait perhaps a thousand years and assume that in these years the scientists would be able to prove the existence or non-existence of the person beyond biology.
I think this is not a theistic issue, but a scientific issue (i.e. even theists need the science to be able to give the "evidence").
