Atheists: Facing the unfaceable

[Chas]

An afterlife requires dualism. There is not only no evidence for dualism, the scientific evidence is completely against it.

Therefore, belief in an afterlife is not rational.

How can science be completely against an afterlife when it has never studied it? To me it seems very reasonable that the "life force" (for lack of a better word) is separate from the physical body.

To you, maybe, but not to scientists.

If we acquired all the materials that a human is made of and created all the organs, etc and put them together would we have a living human being? What would it take to start it up?

It's called embryology.

When a person dies, all of the material substance is still present; just the life is gone.

Because sufficient cells have died to render the machinery inoperative.

I see nothing illogical in remaining open to a non-material existence.

You go right ahead. The evidence is against you.