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To: Last Visible Dog
Actually I want you to support this claim you made "No one will be "meeting up" with him." Meaning you are certain there is no "afterlife". Please bring forth your evidence so we can put this age-old debate to rest.

Thus far, no one has presented evidence that the human consciousness survives brain death. The burden of proof is upon someone asserting as much to demonstrate that this is true. Until then, it's not unreasonable to assume that human consciousnes ends when the object that produces it -- the human brain -- no longer functions.
373 posted on 12/04/2003 4:25:50 PM PST by Dimensio (The only thing you feel when you take a human life is recoil. -- Frank "Earl" Jones)
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To: Dimensio
Thus far, no one has presented evidence that the human consciousness survives brain death.

But we all know absence of evidence is not proof of anything.

The burden of proof is upon someone asserting as much to demonstrate that this is true.

My point exactly. You asserted no one will be meeting up with Darwin (in the after life) so the burden of proof is on you.

Until then, it's not unreasonable to assume that human consciousnes ends when the object that produces it -- the human brain -- no longer functions.

And it is fallacious logic to claim the absence of life after death is a fact - it is merely your belief.

BTW: you position is impossible to prove because it is impossible to prove a negative.

378 posted on 12/04/2003 4:39:59 PM PST by Last Visible Dog
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