Re: evidence for reincarnation: there are numerous instances of children, for example, coming up with hard data that seems very unlikely to come from any exposure they have had in their current existence, concerning events, languages, objects and people from earlier periods. In some of these cases, there has been an opportunity to verify the alleged memory.

1) "seems very unlikely" is hardly evidence that it wasn't
2) if said verification had actually ever verified any, you wouldn't be using the hedge "alleged"

In other words, there is no more *evidence* for reincarnation than there is proof it doesn't happen.

The trick is, a reasonable person has no reason to postulate the possibility that it does, given the lack of evidence for it.

Furthermore, a reasonable person doesn't need proof that the unreasonable *isn't* what is happening, just because we don't know what is.

There is no earthy reason to posit the possibility, let alone the likelihood, that the individual human consciousness coming from a human brain can exist either before, or after, the life of that brain and its body.

That body may even be shared, as in conjoined twins who share a body but have separate heads; each head is known to have its own consciousness.

We *do* actually know that the brain makes the mind.