(July 14, 2011 at 2:55 am)xonage Wrote: I have gone back and forth with what I believe about this. Although there is no evidence to believe we have a life after death, there is also no evidence to the contrary that I have encountered. It seems if we are part energy, and energy can never cease to exist, then part of us must be eternal. Anyone with some concrete evidence that we are completely finished at the time of death, please speak up.
Well, the simple answer is that there is no evidence for or against life after death. The truth of the matter is that no one who has died has come back to tell us one way or another. Many many people have tried to contact the dead, and Harry Houdini had a code to give his wife/widow, and no medium or spiritualist ever came up with it. Sure, there are Near Death Experiences, but the key word there is "near". Those people were not actually dead.
What makes you think we are "part energy"? It's true that energy cannot cease to exist, but what's the evidence for that which makes each of us "us" is any sort of measurable energy, beyond that in the molecules and atoms making up the neurons in our brains, storing our memories and personalities?
Without any evidence one way or another, it is logical to presume the obvious - that there is no life after death - when one is dead they are dead. It is not logical to presume that something happens for which there is no evidence.
If you think there is life after death because of some "energy" that is within us, do you believe that is just humans? How about chimpanzees? How about dogs? How about cats? How about parrots? How about goldfish? How about chickens? How about cattle? How about earthworms? How about cockroaches? How about bacteria? How about apple trees? How about broccoli? How about ragweed? How about yeast? How about viruses? Where do you draw the line and why?
