xxEverBluexx
That's true, except that scientists are fully capable of, and do use evidence to support whatever viewpoint they hold. They can get things just as wrong as anyone else can.
Yes, but that's why mechanisms are in place to keep these mistakes at a minimum. Like testing by different groups and peer review.
xxEverBluexx
And at what point have enough humans experienced something that it's believable? There has to be some non-provable things that we believe just because enough people know about it.
I didn't say they didn't experience it. I'm saying that I don't believe they actually experienced the afterlife.
xxEverBluexx
If it was based on a personal revelation, I'd attribute it to something. I might not believe it's exactly how that person thought it was (like I might think a demon gave them the revelation instead) but I wouldn't think they were lying unless I thought they might have a motive to lie (like with Muhammad; I believe he lied for profit and fame).
Well I can say I believe Jesus was made up, so that the Church could get more power. Same thing.
xxEverBluexx
Does our conciousness exist? If so, then it has to be because of something, even it's just something vague like a soul that not everyone understands. Saying we have a soul, at least in this context, is basically just admitting there's something wonderful there that no one completely gets but everyone has.
A soul is supposed to be some eternal entity that transcends the physical world. We don't fully understand why consciousness exists, but that doesn't mean we have to posit a soul.
xxEverBluexx
Brains are wired to work a certain way (didn't you say the strongest impulse was for survival?), and I don't think suicide really fits in with the way brains are wired. There's nothing that says the soul is wired for survival though...
No one ever said our brain was perfect. And again, how does suicide make any more sense if we have a soul?
xxEverBluexx
Are you saying the brain doesn't have to act logically?
Of course it doesn't.
