(July 16, 2011 at 4:57 pm)xonage Wrote: Secondly, this argument about "well I cant prove a unicorn doesn't exist blah blah blah." It has no relation to a life after death issue. There is no reason to believe in unicorns, because we have not found a fossil. We might one day, and then we will know that some horse in the past had a horn. This is quite possible.
Actually they are very much related. Just like we have never found a unicorn fossil, we have never found any concrete evidence of an afterlife, therefore there is no reason to believe in it. Until evidence is found for either, there is no reason to believe they exist.
xonage Wrote:But the fact that there is a force or an energy, or something that animates a being, this is real, and we dont know how to measure it. We dont know why life suddenly leaves a body. There is a missing piece of the puzzle here.
We know life leaves the body when the machinery (the body) fails. Death is the cessation of the functions of the body.
xonage Wrote:If a body has no such force, then why cant we make a living being and give it life. The closest we have, our robots, need a power supply. They need an external energy source to make it go. So do we. So the question is, what is that energy source, and where does it go when we die?
Just like a robot, the human body needs energy to function. Why are you so inclined to believe that the energy needed for a human is any different? In fact, we know that the body functions using electrical impulses, just as a robot would. A dead human is merely a machine that is beyond repair and ceases to output.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
