Search for Causes

[LadyForCamus]

Let me say that my belief in God and the supernatural doesn't come from my observation and experience of the natural world.  It comes directly from God.

So you keep telling us, but you have no way of verifying or demonstrating that to anyone. You must understand why others aren’t convinced? How can we tell if you’re right or not? For that matter, how can you? 

I can look at the world and say that I recognize God in the world, but that stems from the fact that I believe in God.

Yes. That’s the definition of confirmation bias. You’re beginning with your conclusion. 

I do observe and experience many things in the natural world which are further evidence of the existence of God and the supernatural.

No, sorry. That’s just more confirmation bias. You admitted it yourself, even if you don’t realize it.

Some examples of occurrences that support the supernatural are the common recorded instances of memories of past lives and near death experiences.  Has anybody ever done an experiment that proves that parents love their children?  The only ones who can prove to themselves that they love their children are parents who possess that love.  The children who experience that love will also recognize it.  They can do all the scientific investigating that they want, but no one else can prove it.

We have plenty of scientific evidence that the love we feel for our children has its roots in evolutionary biology, Lek. Just do a simple google search. The same goes for all your other examples. Have you ever done any reading on these subjects without the lens of religion over your eyes? Or, at all? Have you ever considered that perhaps you are the closed-minded one by refusing to inform yourself of the possible natural explanations for these alleged experiences? Your thread title is, “Search for Causes”. How hard have you really searched? Perhaps you have a reason to not want to search as hard as you could?

I've heard and read too much to believe that human consciousness all comes from physical mechanisms.

 If you really want to know about the subject view it on you tube. It's titled "Eben Alexander: A Neurosurgeon's Journey through the Afterlife".  He tells it better than I have ever heard about this subject and how life-changing it is.  He's undoubtedly a man of science who believed as you do before his experience, but now believes differently.  All you have to do is put on your earbuds and listen.

So, someone’s personal testimony in a YouTube video should be sufficient to convince me a god exists? Lek, do you believe that humans are abducted by aliens?