Originally Posted by
Giordano
Back to the main focus of this thread: of course there are many things yet to be discovered! But there are many, many more things that will never be discovered simply because they do not exist. There is a massive amount of evidence against a concept of an afterlife, and no convincing evidence for it. So although one may wish, in principal, to not completely rule out the possibility, it is so very low as to not be worthwhile considering until there is good evidence for an afterlife. At that time I will re-consider my opinion. Until then, the concept appears to have no more evidence than there being a unicorn in my attic, and I have no more reason to consider an afterlife than to consider feeding my unicorn.
I don't see how the research for near death experiences can indicate that an after life doesn't exist. If our perceptions are limited, then what people claim to be seeing would simply be a brain function. How would that be evidence that an after life didn't exist? If there is other evidence than these particular studies, I'm not aware of it.