(April 18, 2013 at 11:12 am)ChadWooters Wrote: Of course he offers no evidence to support his claim that brain dysfunction produces NDE.
The article describes it as "his hypothesis." If, per his emphasis, he is a scientist, then it seems typical that he'd hypothesize about the cause of NDEs, while allowing for further research to test and possibly reject his ideas.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
