Why believe the bible?

[Mister Agenda]

There's a catchall exception for admitting hearsay evidence: no better information is available and it will serve the cause of justice. To many religious people, anything that supports their religion automatically 'serves the cause of justice' and should be allowed. Of course, anyone who doesn't already agree with their conclusion will see that it's the cause of apologetics being served, not justice.

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I do perhaps think we all wonder about a life after out body dies, in other words we cannot imagine what not existing must be like, hence our search for a 'beyond' to our life and perhaps dreaming of our loved ones led us to believe (or at least hope) there could be an afterlife.

Most early religions were built this way a belief in the spirits of ancestors, some in re-incarnation, many believed in multiple spirits and eventually distinct gods and later in the day monotheism. To claim a hard wiring is to put the conclusion (something must have hard wired us) before the question.

And people had then-inexplicable experiences every night. While they were asleep, some part of them seemed to go on journeys, to encounter other people (some of them dead in the waking world), gods, monsters, talking animals, and so on. I do not blame ancient people for concluding that there is a spirit world. But we know a lot more about the brain activity behind dreams now, and it's not nearly as justified as it used to be.