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Originally Posted by CDSmith
Those who believe in the "nothingness" theory for another example, that when we die that's it, nothing, we're gone forever... all have that as a belief since it remains unproven. They seem to all have complete faith in that belief, a quite strong one in fact in most who proclaim it as absolute truth.
In other words both sides have more in common than anyone cares to let on. :D
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This is completely true. Nobody can know for certain what happens when you die. It is certainly possible that some part of us survives bodily death, but there is no evidence for that. All we know is through our observation of the deaths of others. They get real still and start to rot. It would be logical to assume that when the body ceases functioning, everything dies. We don't have conclusive evidence for a soul. The most rational belief would be that when we die, that's it.
On the other hand, there are bits and pieces of evidence that suggests the POSSIBILITY of a soul. For example, there is some evidence that plants can sense fear, but plants don't have brains. Then there is the philosophical question of SELF and subjectivity. This is a big problem for materialists. Moreover, there are certain things that don't seem to have a correlate in the brain. The materialist theory that the mind is a 100% byproduct of the brain is not a perfect one. Many things need to be explained.