What is heaven?

[Akincana Krishna dasa]

You are asserting this when all the evidence points to it not being true.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16...brain.html

Well, that article asserts an idea that "seems" to be true when all Vedic authority points to it not being true, and in fact explicitly states it isn't true. That article said absolutely nothing to refute the idea that the brain conducts consciousness and is not the source of it. Scientists can't understand the soul - their knowledge will always be incomplete

The "life comes from matter" theory is a bluff. It is not knowledge, nor has anyone come close to proving it. If you choose to believe an unfounded idea like that because dishonest scientists are ready to say that's what they think, ok fine. But without some serious evidence, it's not something I'm ready to take on faith.

Why not be honest and admit science knows extremely little about the origin of life? Why is it "science" to assert something with very little evidence?

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As far as I know, heaven isn't very well defined. It is basically whatever you want it to be, just like how you can cherry-pick which parts of the bible are true. Do they never realize that their desires do not change reality? (Or do they assume heaven will conform to their desires). In all honesty, especially given god's character, it would probably be endlessly worshipping him and being bathed in his 'glory'.

In the Bhagavatam heaven and hell are very clearly defined.

http://vedabase.net/sb/en1

You can take a look at this chapter, for example:

http://vedabase.net/sb/5/24/en1