Background---If you do not know what NDEs are, consider learning a bit about them briefly by watching:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlwyU0_M8...plpp_video
The person in the video above is a professor of Neurosurgery at Harvard University. In 2008, he contracted a rare form of bacterial meningitis--a disease that ate away at his brain. It caused his neocortex (the part of the brain that makes us human) to shut down and he fell into a deep coma. During his coma, he had an NDE. In this NDE, he felt his soul/consciousness soar into the universe. Amidst this, he experienced a profound sense of Love and God's presence.
After 7 days of virtual brain death, he came out of his coma with vivid memories of this NDE.
Medically inexplicably, within a month of this NDE, his disease completely vanished and he was completely back to normal.
Regarding the biological theories attempting to explain Near-Death Experiences (you can find these explanations in skeptic forums, on Wikipedia, or elsewhere online) as "hallucinations" and the similar, my question is:
How can our brains create such long and vivid "hallucinations," when there is absolutely no electrical brain activity in many NDE scenarios, such as those of persons who experience cardiac arrest (--where the EEG goes completely flat)? Can our brain function without any electrical pulse? Furthermore, in such scenarios, how it could function unimpaired and to such a great degree that it can create such a strong and memorable, often life-changing experience? How could we even formulate memories while having absolutely no brain activity?
I can't see the reason and logic behind the biological theories that attempt to explain NDEs; in fact, I find them to contra-scientific, if anything (they assert a "brain function despite-the-lack-of brain activity" idea). I know that atheists deny the existence of the soul. I am left to question:
--How can our brains function to create such vivid and memorable "hallucinations," in cases where there is absolutely no brain activity?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlwyU0_M8...plpp_video
The person in the video above is a professor of Neurosurgery at Harvard University. In 2008, he contracted a rare form of bacterial meningitis--a disease that ate away at his brain. It caused his neocortex (the part of the brain that makes us human) to shut down and he fell into a deep coma. During his coma, he had an NDE. In this NDE, he felt his soul/consciousness soar into the universe. Amidst this, he experienced a profound sense of Love and God's presence.
After 7 days of virtual brain death, he came out of his coma with vivid memories of this NDE.
Medically inexplicably, within a month of this NDE, his disease completely vanished and he was completely back to normal.
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Regarding the biological theories attempting to explain Near-Death Experiences (you can find these explanations in skeptic forums, on Wikipedia, or elsewhere online) as "hallucinations" and the similar, my question is:
How can our brains create such long and vivid "hallucinations," when there is absolutely no electrical brain activity in many NDE scenarios, such as those of persons who experience cardiac arrest (--where the EEG goes completely flat)? Can our brain function without any electrical pulse? Furthermore, in such scenarios, how it could function unimpaired and to such a great degree that it can create such a strong and memorable, often life-changing experience? How could we even formulate memories while having absolutely no brain activity?
I can't see the reason and logic behind the biological theories that attempt to explain NDEs; in fact, I find them to contra-scientific, if anything (they assert a "brain function despite-the-lack-of brain activity" idea). I know that atheists deny the existence of the soul. I am left to question:
--How can our brains function to create such vivid and memorable "hallucinations," in cases where there is absolutely no brain activity?
"Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect." (1 Peter 3:15)
The "Test of Life" is not whether you can blindly "worship and praise God”. The test in life is whether or not you can live your life according to virtue, and live a life that reverberates waves of positive energy, building people up, as Jesus His son perfectly exemplified. We can choose lives of virtue as is God's will, or to choose lives of selfishness, arrogance, and other vices which have led to the plague of humanity we have found on earth. If people choose vice, that is their choice. Do not judge them (1 Corinthians 5:12 ). But He sent Jesus as a prime example of virtue so that we could see the light and choose it, instead of poisoning the earth with lives of darkness. Many, including even "Christians," have failed in this regard. But Christianity is supposed to be the message of love, hope, faith, unity, and virtue, that creates heaven on Earth.
The "Test of Life" is not whether you can blindly "worship and praise God”. The test in life is whether or not you can live your life according to virtue, and live a life that reverberates waves of positive energy, building people up, as Jesus His son perfectly exemplified. We can choose lives of virtue as is God's will, or to choose lives of selfishness, arrogance, and other vices which have led to the plague of humanity we have found on earth. If people choose vice, that is their choice. Do not judge them (1 Corinthians 5:12 ). But He sent Jesus as a prime example of virtue so that we could see the light and choose it, instead of poisoning the earth with lives of darkness. Many, including even "Christians," have failed in this regard. But Christianity is supposed to be the message of love, hope, faith, unity, and virtue, that creates heaven on Earth.
