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Thread #131699   Message #2984258
Posted By: GUEST,josep
10-Sep-10 - 08:09 PM
Thread Name: BS: The God Delusion 2010
Subject: RE: BS: The God Delusion 2010
//"Someone offer me an argument that death extinguishes consciousness."


This is something that can neither be proved or disproved by science as it concerns Metaphysics and not physics.//

Oh, it certainly can be proven. I intend to do just that on this very thread. It won't be empirically proven, true enough, but I will prove it is completely logical and death extinguishing consciousness is not.

//From a scientists perspective, there is as much probability that consciousness continues after death as there is that God exists.

In scientific terms = 0//

Here we go with the straw men. That is a total presumption on your part as there are a great many scientists who believe in continuance after death. Indeed there are scientists that are born-again Christians. Science, in fact, simply suspends judgment on these matters.

//Any discussion about what exists outside the observable world is philosphy.//

Which is why science suspends judgment. Individual scientists may dismiss it as poppycock but many do not.

//On the subject of consciousness, this is not the ability to experience or remember, but is the thing that actually does the experiencing or remembering.//

That's a mere quibble as I intend to show.