Message #3314

[Martin]

I disagree with you because of what has happened in my life, what I have experienced and seen & heard - things which I cannot explain by what you would call 'normal' means. I disagree because on trying to find out more, I have found a lot of evidence both in books and online - and accounts from other people.

Your experience has nothing to do with what I'm saying - that there is no contolled study, subject to proper scientific scrutiny, which gives evidence for the existence of a soul. You are stating a belief, I am challenging you to provide a verifiable fact.

I also disagree because I cannot see any proof supplied by you or anyone else that proves against the existence of the afterlife or the soul.

I fully accept, and have accepted throughout this thread, that the non-existence of evidence doesn't mean that something can't possibly exist, but the non-existence of evidence does mean that there is no more properly controlled scientific evidence for the existence of what people call 'a soul', than there is for the existence of Daleks out in space.  I daresay we could find people who believe that Daleks exist out in space and are threatening to invade the earth, perhaps they will even testify to events in their lives that prove it to their satisfaction, but I posit that such people are barking.