"I haven't gone to a better place, or a worse one. I haven't gone anyplace, because Derek doesn't exist anymore. As soon as my body stopped functioning, and the neurons in my brain ceased firing, I made a remarkable transformation: from a living organism to a corpse, like a flower or a mouse that didn't make it through a particularly frosty night. The evidence is clear that once I died, it was over."
Ignoring the fact that he uses the future tense as if it were the past tense, his atheism and naturalism are self-refuting. If his presuppositions were true it was impossible for him to know what he claimed know. He claimed that his knowledge that once he died it was over was based on "the evidence". Really? Did he look everywhere and examine everything in the entire universe? He would have to be omniscient to do that, making himself God. The internal contradictions are apparent in what he wrote. On one hand he says, "What to know, now that I'm dead", and on the other hand he says, "There can't be answers today."
If all he was was a concatenation of molecules and atoms banging around the very rationality he assumes, as well as the love, truth and beauty, good and bad he speaks of to his daughters are all meaningless nonsense. Matter in motion is not "good" or "bad". Love and hate would be nothing more than monistic, blind, electrochemical activity.
What is true is that I loved them. Lauren and Marina, as you mature and become yourselves over the years, know that I loved you and did my best to be a good father.Airdrie, you were my best friend and my closest connection. I don't know what we'd have been like without each other, but I think the world would be a poorer place. I loved you deeply, I loved you, I loved you, I loved you.
He wasn't a very consistent atheist. In spite of himself, his professions of love are eloquent testimony to his inner knowledge of God as Creator, as well as a damning indictment of the futility of his professed Naturalism.
Cordially,
I’m wondering if the author hasn’t put his toe into the waters of *Cartesian Solipsism.* ;)
Stand in any train station you choose and you’ll always see that some unannounced destinations are more popular than others.
Thank you for sharing your insights!