(July 15, 2011 at 9:20 am)Napoleon Wrote:(July 15, 2011 at 8:45 am)Rhythm Wrote: Not only is there no evidence for an afterlife, the very idea of an afterlife makes assumptions which are in direct contradiction with almost everything we know about human beings, life, and energy itself.
That's the main point. With the knowledge we possess an afterlife is completely impossible. To deny so is being willfully ignorant.
Argument from incredulity, an ad hominem and incorrect. All we can say with any certainty is that so far there is no evidence for survival after death.There is no positive evidence.Absence of evidence implies (suggests) not,but does not allow an inference (conclusion)
That I disagree with you does not infer I am ignorant. A skeptic,as far as I'm concerned, all questions remain open,especially metaphysical propositions about a question about the existence of god(s),the soul, an afterlife.I do not believe in such things, but concede they are not impossible ,only unlikely.
I reject the notion that truth may be reached through reason alone, I demand evidence. That the existence of an afterlife is so far both unprovable and unfalsifiable is not my problem. It simply means neither proposition has been proved. Consequently. I don't believe, in an afterlife,just as I don't believe in mountain trolls,dragons and fairies at the bottom of my garden
