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  • Born again? Hahahaha

    Right

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  • I find it ironic that a creationist is talking about circular reasoning.

    "The Bible proves god because the bible is true because god wrote the bible because the bible proves god."

  • When i LOOK at a "thing", my CONSCIOUSNESS can create a Smell or give me goose bumps (feeling) for example, thus our senses are or can be a connected!

  • :) I like how morons have negative comments against you lol

  • this is not true you can be an atheist and also believe in the soul, which means you can be an athesit and not a naturalist

    atheist = not believing in the possibility of god

    that is all

  • omfg reality is circular reasoning?... how can ther be a soul if everything you are is in your brain? you claim to have had cointact with god... tell me how and ill desprov e it and laugh in your face you fucking dumbfuck

  • OMG THAT GUY SEES THE WORLD AS IT IS? HE DOESNT SEE IT AS IT ISNT? HES NOT CRAZY? BURN HIM!!!! dude fuck off you are dumb plus you are very falacious. fucking cunt

  • This video is surprisingly insulting to the scientists mentioned within it.

  • no stupid its a plasma light

  • I didn;t think it would be but that was actually a very well reasoned argument. Would be nice to see some intelligent counter arguments that aren't personal insults.

  • @cloudskipa it's a basic argument from ignorance."there could be a supernatural reality undetectable to our senses". an informed atheist would simply make no claims as to what exists beyond what we can scientifically or experientially verify. the view of methodological naturalism would be held as a matter of practicality rather than dogma.

    his musings on consciousness are meaningless without defining it first.

  • @cloudskipa read up on mind duality(for and against) and also skepticism.his brain in the vat musings are a dead end, a black hole for knowledge of any sort. venomfangx is a wannabe philosopher,so for someone who has studied philosophy, his arguments are not new or persuasive(if his goal is to prove god or theism)

  • Then who was Universe?

  • @RamoneHoffman Side note: Jesus butt fucking Christ, his voice is grating.

  • Thought is a chemical reaction.. your choice is a chemical reaction.. Thus Thought is just a process, and giving it meaning is also just a process! But then again terminologies are just measures of understanding, so call it what you want. it is what it is. :3

  • from 4:27 to 5:38 you went from correct to stupid few times, please review your understading and definition of what you're talking about so that you don't turn so silly when you're actually doing good.

  • Money makes evolution true

  • Even if the senses are flawed (which sort of defeats their use in evolution), they all confirm the same things. And even then, we have a LOT more than 5 senses, our sense of temperature for example.

  • I love VFX ... he is so dumb. He assumes that Naturalist only use their five senses to determine reality and don't use reason ... it is kinda funny. Before you can assume something is outside of reality, you must prove that there is some place beyond reality.

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  • This guy looks like Wilson.

  • @batistaker123 if by wilson you mean douche

  • @20regan06 He definitely is a douche but i mean he looks like Wilson from the TV show "House"

  • There is a possibility of something else than the known Universe exists. Therefore, God exists? The soul exists?

    One can argue that there is a possibility that Unicorns exist. Therefore, they do?

  • This is beyond stupid, I therefore conclude you are stupid. Please seek education.

  • 1 thing to disprove every Christian's belief.

    You all preach about "Heaven after death" and "working up to enter heaven's gates".

    Well then what would you do if someone put a gun to your head? Would you beg for your life?

    Why would you? If there is a paradise after death, why worry about dying regardless of the gun?

  • "I dare to think outside the box. Hence, Jesus Christ."

    There. Just saved you 11 minutes.

  • science is god

  • Irony: a religious nut job using science and philosophy to prove his point

  • So many invalid assumptions. There are forces in nature that already exist that our 5 sense don't register too well. Forms of electromagnetic radiation, other than the visible light spectrum, are not detectable. Well I suppose if one was hit by an xrays, gamma rays, or microwaves our body would note the passing with cell death. So no, atheist don't think that all there is are things we can detect with our 5 senses. However, we believe in forces that manifest themselves in the physical universe.

  • you realize you have the word "fag" in your user name don't you? just food for thought..

  • first of all stupid ass the 5 senses were not just assumed to exist they are senses that are demonstrated to exist....if there are more senses it needs to be demonstrated ...not just magically assume its there that is the mentality of a retard...which you are....and it is why people laugh at you

  • 114 people are watching this from prison

  • What an idiot... it doesn't take an intelligent person to realize that I can't directly through sense data perceive radio waves, but repeatable, predictable experiments prove that they exist.

    I hope Athena grants this guy wisdom some day.

  • What an idiot... it doesn't take an intelligent person to realize that I can't directly through sense data perceive radio waves, but repeatable, predictable experiments prove that they exist.

    I hope Athena grants this guy wisdom some day.

  • I sense that this video could have some capability of brain washing a poor mind that dosen't have a full understanding of science. I hope people see beyond his ignorance and keeps on heading for the truth!

  • ah but i can tell wether you are conscious and can perceive which give off brainwaves which can can be seen

  • You need mental help buddy you're so delusional.

  • Couldn't Even Watch the entire video, Complete Garbage.

  • 1. You cannot reason your way to something that exists outside of reason - sorry, there has to be some reference to measurable phenomena.

    2. One atom is cannot do arithmetic, so by VFX logic NO number of atoms could do arithmetic. I have a calculator in my desk drawer.

    3. I can't refute solipsism; I REJECT it on pragmatic grounds.

    4. "Millions of people claim to have had direct contact with god." Argumentum ad populum. Millions of people claim to have seen Elvis Presley alive after he died.

  • How the fuck can you conclude on something that isn't shown to exist?Just because our *many* senses don't detect it, doesn't mean that science is limited. You ever heard of any mechanical detectors? They attribute properties of all detected forces (that we can't), and continue to scour for more. You better keep an open mind about this stuff, just because you think it's supernatural doesn't make it the sky daddy.

  • On my deathbed, I'm *really* going to wish I had these 11 minutes of my life to do differently.

  • This kid is the public face of a failed cult. Even if he lacks the intellectual capacity to grasp the concept of shame, it should be obvious that other people will view this video and they will be ashamed of and for him. It's sad, really.

  • He's stating that the law of conservation of energy can allow perpetual activation of a system?

  • @Bleumange the system, being a soul, i suppose; not the body

  • @alexavasquez1992 point me to a detail in your comment that makes sense.

  • @alexavasquez1992 you asked about perpetual activation of a system. and what i got from this video is that he was talking about the soul being eternal, not the body.

  • Making conclusions from everything we know is close minded and circular while believing baseless drivel is all explaining and sufficient?

  • I don't think hes helping his cause as hes talking such nonsense.What about the light spectrum,we can't see radio waves with our eyes but that's how we transmit signals to out televisions and wireless internet.People should think before they talk shit.Personally I doubt he is fully conscious or at least hes had a lobotomy.

  • last time I checked, we don't just use 5 senses, but rather technology as well.

    Night vision goggles is a great example. or seeing a doppler image for weather. Thats another example. You act like we don't try to test or experiment with things other than what we are equipped with as human beings.  Humans also are tool makers you moron.

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  • last time i checked scientists used special equipment/devices to get their evidence and not just their "5 Senses."

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  • Wow how can you get so much wrong in 11 minutes? You know, I can see the effect of the wind, I can feel the effect of the wind, I can hear the effect of the wind. Get it? Just because you can't hear the high pitched sound does not mean it does not exist, it is still measurable. Get it? Never thought for one second you are a being that perceives things like me, I would never make such ridiculous assertions. What happens to consciousness if the brain shuts down? Truly appalling arguments.

  • ugh... I would comment but there is so much to refute and and only 500 characters is far from enough room.

  • you can only taste because you smell!!! Dumb butt

  • "Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God"

  • you compair unlike things and say them fast to make your point witch is stupid. use proof instead of faith i have a feeling that i am going to win the lottery because i want to win the lottery you have a faith in a god because you want there to be a god . there is a small chance that i might win the lottery but sadly no chance of god. well sadly for you because i like not having to answer to anybody

  • how about smell and taste.. you are a moron

  • We don't believe that all existence is covered by our laws of nature. We simply believe that the only way we could possibly be aware of a thing's existence is if it exists within the laws of nature. Which is true, because our perception is limited to the laws of nature. Therefore, to assume that a specific thing exists outside of the laws of nature just because it doesn't exists within the laws of nature is completely retarded.

  • Does Venomfang even know what an Atheist is?

  • WOW.... he is the best pseudo intellectual retard, I've ever seen.

  • is this brick a house ? no ,is this brick a house ? no . then how can bricks make a house ?

  • so stupid it gives headaches.

  • what you are calling think outside the senses is called guessing. @4:19 consciousnesses is a neural thing, i did use my 5 senses in advance, it is common experience.@ 4:36 typically we know that ppl have brains, except maybe you

    @6:11 energy cannot be destroyed or created, but converted.

    @8:05 because anything else would be guessing for no reason

  • there not limited by each other!! what you described is that they make up for each other.That is not limiting each other, that is just being limited.

    @ 2:39: because why would you depend on something you can't precieve with the five senses? There would be nothing telling it apart from nothing. Our senses have proven themselves worthy, it isn't circular.

    @ 2:58 no one says that, most theists say that about things they don't even know exist.

  • He makes great arguments for the Faith, any1 who disagrees is just being foolish. a typical trait held by most atheists...

  • This guy is self-defeating and self-refuting.

  • Is this one atom on fire? No? Then how can many atoms be on fire?

    Sigh...

  • We perceive, in and of ourselves, only a tiny fraction of the electromagnetic spectrum... but we know about the rest of it because we can create devices that *can* perceive the rest of it.

    Can't do that with God or the supernatural, so thus the rejection. Duh?

  • Dude was really trying to listen but I got to the part where you said "You cant say that consciousness is in the brain." Yes you can, you can cut the spinal cord and observe the lack of consciousness of the person who was in fact cut....im going to watch the rest of this now, but I just wanted to throw that out there

  • Is he stupid?

  • Jesus jumping christ do any christians actually buy this shit?

  • "More nonsense from our favorite youtube local fundie"

    Couldn't agree more, you're my favourite fundie PCS.

  • Conciousness is not the simple interaction between any two atoms or molecules, but the processes of your whole brain. How do you know conciousness is not natural? or that it is supernatural? because you experience god? You're whole ministry goes round in circles: you prove god with the bible, the bible with god, you prove god with logic, and logic with god, etc. That's why people dont like you, because they cant stand the 'christian overconfidence', the sophistry.

  • I dont agree with it, but i must point it out because you dont even listen to yourself. you said: if the energy BETWEEN THE TWO is conciousness. If this were true, it doesnt follow that after you die you're still concious, because there is no longer any BETWEEN THE TWO, no interaction. Why do you think you dont rot right now? because your cells are interacting. chemistry is happening. your body is fighting infection and microbial decomposition. Also, you have kind of a new age notion of energy.

  • Your discourses, Shawn, are THE PERFECT EXAMPLE of what a strawman argument is: you are imagining ridiculous oposite views, with no consideration of the best arguments against yours, and then refute the ridiculous construct you yourself made.

  • What you call conciousness, and think so hard is not natural, is what: emotions, images, language, sounds. What you think is the holy spirit, is plain biochemistry. This is not a hypothesis, it has been demonstrated. You should check out 'How god changes our brain'. But i dont expect you to take any of this seriously, or at best you will go to it already convinced that it MUST be wrong, because you 'know' the bible is true.

  • This is what happened when you try to find out about reality with bare alone logic. Do you understand the concept of interaction, chemistry?? drink hydrogen and oxygen and tell me if it tastes like water. but water is made of them. The only thing that surpases your self confidence is your ignorance Shawn. I'm not against you uploading your ministry, but at least do it truthfully, decently, THINK things through. People dont react to you because they hate you or god, it's because you're slopy.

  • I cant find conciousness?? Give me a CAT Scanner and a book of cognitive neuroscience.

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  • HOW CAN TWO NEGATIVE NUMBERS MULTIPLY TO CREATE A POSITIVE? HOW DOES IT WORK?! derp derp derp

  • ahh its dark

  • Consciouness is a network of cells that send messeges in the brain using energy. when you die. the definition of dying is to cease function of organs and organ systems. When you die the network system of cells stop functioning there for consciouness becomes unconscious. You must have matter and energy in a specific state to form consciouness. if that state is disrupted consciouness no longer is present. you are a very aroggant person kid.

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  • @linksfiery22 i totally agree. Maybe he doesnt get that we dont hate him. Is just that we cant stand him, not because he is soo smooth and smart. But because he is soo sloppy and sophomoric while being totally overconfident on his genius.

  • if i put your head and another object together i would get 'un'consciousness and if you can become unconscious then surely that means that you can be conscious and therefore you must reason that consciousness is physical and not anything else my 'sense' of humour came into play here.

  • easy to show "the brain is equivalent to conciousness". smash it against the wall, cut it off or grind it with a meat grinder and see if you are still concious. the stupidity of yours really amazed me venomfag. you are a live evidence that INTELLIGENT design cant be possible

  • To me this is your AVERAGE christian. I can see this guy deluding himself to the point of harm. Oh wait , just viewed his appology to Thunderfoot. Ka-----Ching ! ! !

  • our brains have evolved for the capability of consciousness, there's no single part of the brain that controls consciousness, it's many parts of the brain that have evolved to work together to achieve it

    i trust that you are also conscious and not a robot, so i believe you when you say you are conscious. however, i dont claim absolute knowledge, but you are most likely conscious

  • >MFW he started talking about atoms.

    >MFW he started talking about consciousness.

    Does he not understand either of these things?

  • You lost the THUMBS DOWN vote!

    Atheists win!

    Richard Dawkins (PBUH) is someone you should listen to.

    Maybe you can have your defective brain repaired.

    Your parents are guilty of a crime against humanity for teaching you religious faith.

    You are delusional!

  • I must be unconscious because I have no clue where this is leading to except that maybe he has something against people who trust in nature because everything else is too difficult to define the difference of what is fiction and what is fact.

  • WHAT THE FUCK ARE ALL THESE NATURALISM LAWS BULLSHIT, WHERE HAS THIS INFORMATION COME FROM????

  • I'll give you points for your just excellent depiction of the 5 senses, really cool effect. But then you go off the deep end, once again. For one, we don't say that only what we can sense UNAIDED BY TECHNOLOGY exists, that would mean that a great many stars and atoms don't exist. However, with the help of technology, we can detect the dog whistle, see and even split atoms, see distant stars, ect. That gives us fairly sufficient access to all that ACTUALLY EXISTS.

  • Weak sauce indeed.

  • how do you know atoms are not conscious?

    (im a physics/astrophysics major at uni)

  • 2:45 no. the epitome of arrogance is believing the universe was created JUST for humans.

    although, good spotting on the 5 senses v perceived data. however, dont think too highly of yourself. this was noticed in the time of philosophers such as socrates and aristotle. this was before science as we know it existed, and has been taken into account of the creation of every branch of science. do some research before you try to fill peoples heads with this.

    a good person to start researching - Pyrrho

  • How many animals starved to death so that he would have enough hay to make all those straw men?

  • Less than 2min in. I can see your point: you suggest that empirical evidence gathered by our 5 senses is the only manner that 'natural law' presents itself. You are, of course, incorrect in this assumption. Things like calculating the width of an atom are NOT empirically collected through our 5 senses, but are done so through complex methods which we have been 'proven' (scientific fact) to be correct. We still accept the science even though we cannot directly measure the width of an atom.

  • This guy is so stupid...

    If I will punch you in the face really hard and you will not move or react anyhow, you are, my friend, considered unconsious from that moment.

    This proves, that you was conscious before I knocked you out!

    Then you will become conscious again, If you lucky enough, in hospital.

    That's just stupid play with words...

    YOU STUPID!!!

    All you said is nonsense...

  • I muted the vid, and just watched the pretty globe.

  • Imagine the fun crap you could make up with a snow globe!

  • Hmm, but what about bats or dolphins, they can hear what there world looks like.Its a kind of mapping the outside worlds and so is connectedin a way by sight.

  • science has given us machines that can see the complete electromagnetic spectrum. the reason we only use the 5 sences to percieve our surroundings is because it is all we have. there are no other inputs; you have 5. any thing else you are using to aquire information from is made up by you. if you get brain trauma you could be a different person as a result. wheres your soul for that? the info stored in your brain makes you you.

  • I must say his argument is quite good!

    My response is that we only have these 5 senses to determine our realities, but we can expand on them by using technology, such as uv cameras, or probes we send to space. Also the 5 sense independently verify each other. If I see as well as hear someone talking to me, thats two lines of confirming evidence that the person is there.

    I also respond that I never claimed there may be more things to perceive, but at present there is nothing to suggest there is

  • Mutiple points:

    1. Personal revelation isn't even close to the catergory of evidence.

    2. Science does not limit itself to the five senses.

    3. You are saying scienists are childish for examining the world as it is, but it is you who is childish for making up absurd stories to explain what you don't nor I understand.

  • You're still in the box just like everyone of us...so stop trying to prove atheists wrong, just prove you're right...and you certainly haven't grasped the fact that true scientists DO NOT rely on their human senses to make assertions...you're the lawyer type that's full of bullshit and can fool most people (who's head's really hurt if they think, or try to...for more than two minutes). Oh and if i had to describe you in one word, it would be "pseudointelectual" cuz it's easy to play with words.

  • lol if he gets attacked in the dark by a demon

  • There are 21 senses. Even absent of that fact:

    Atheism WINS!

  • you SUCK!

  • OMG THE VERY INTRO ITSELF WAS ENOUGH TO MAKE ME BEND OVER AND TAKE IT UP TGHE ARSE FROM MY LOCAL PREIST THANK YOU VENOMFANGFAIL thank you so much XD

  • Who could even press the like button on this video ? This is an insult to atheists and intelligent believers. Anyone in his sane mind would realise all your arguments are fallacious, if arguments at all.

  • If this guy wasn't such a cunt I would actually feel sorry for him. He's wasting the best years of his life in this deep religious psychosis, completely cut off from all rationality and truth.

  • @OrthodoxDarwinist - you took the words right out my mouth

  • Wow...totally wrong even with the very first statement. Science does not limit itself to our five senses. The things that we can perceive with those senses are of course much easier to prove but what about darkmatter and darkenergy. Antimatter or black holes. All things we can only indirectly perceive but yet assume must exist to account for other things to make sense.

    What we don't belive in is things that doesn't make sense. Such as an allmighty sky daddy for instance.

  • your argument about atoms and consciousness is flawed. Take salt, sodium chloride. Sodium explodes on its own and chlorine is poisonous when undiluted and neither has any potential to be used as seasoning. However, sodium and chloride, both particles individually without the potential of being safely edible, combine to make a nice seasoning we put on food and eat.

  • Atheists don't believe in a god that is all.

  • Almost all the people commenting on this video sound like ...nevermind.

  • looked for his brain,couldn't find one,i didn't believe he was conscious at all. haha.he was talking about reason and god in the same sentence,face palm

  • looked for his brain,couldn't find one,i didn't believe he was conscious at all.

  • I think arrogance is believing that you think there is more out there than you can actually prove. Also, nice purchase from Spencer's. I'd like to see more raverkid toys used to prove your a total moron.

  • he just said that he's had 'direct contact with god'...i nearly fell out of my chair laughing!! the poor lad needs help :)

  • this guy MUST be a wind-up. no-one is this stupid to not understand the concept of evidence. this is so funny :)

  • legendary fail on every point

    emmm... what you call consius is just a colection of chemical reactions hapening in your brain... yes sience has icolated difrent parts of the brain... no energy needed and even WITH the stawman the energy could just tern into difrent energy...

    and

    i wana see a child brain surgen.... hey even a child can belive in god (this one is real) wow how easy....

    stawmen are SOOOO easy now i see why he dose that....

  • If God existed wouldn't he have some demonstrable effect on the physical world? If he has no effect then why pray to him? Why even call him God?

  • I can't tell if this guy is serious or not.I'm hoping he's all complete satire.But anyways, just one of many factual errors to point out.You can use your other senses to preserve stuff that another does.You can touch something without seeing it and know what it is.You can also use sound to locate objects that you can't see.This would have to be a developed skill and usually only blind people have the time to develop it.You can smell something and be in the ballpark of what it might taste like.

  • Beginning of the video - seriously?

    One minute later - ROFL

    After he "proves" his first point - facepalm

    When he mentions Richard Dawkins- epic facepalm

    About the 9 min mark - reason with religion?! LOLROFLMAO facepalm

    Rest of the vid - this is why I don't buy into religion. Facepalm

  • what about sight and touch......dumbass 1:32

  • what about sight and touch......dumbass

  • Think outside the box? Not only DOESN'T VFX think outside the box, he's in the box and has buried himself with his ignorant and stupid ideas. HIs box, or worldview, is so small that he doesn't realize how small his thinking really is.

    VFX, who has no degrees in biology, anthorpology, cosmology, philosophy or how the brain works makes utubes"refuting" those who do have degrees in these sciences.

  • What is the difference between something I can not see, hear, touch or smell? Something that can not effect me in any physical way? IE, your god. Your god can not help me or hurt me anymore that any other idea some guy pulled out of his ass. By definition your god idea is not real, it's just your idea, and ideas are a dime a dozen. It's only real to YOU.

    Until your god can effect the real world we rationalist have no obligation to treat your god idea as real.

  • wow 5 senses irrelevant 

  • "you have to employ reason, and reason will take you beyond the five senses. and that'll bring ya right to GOD."

    HAHAHHAA

  • Straw man argument.

    Detectable with 5 senses != all of reality.

    Example: X-Ray radiation exists. You cannot "observe" it directly with any sense.

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  • ...Ihave a Feeling this guy...just listened to twats like Frank Turek and posted videos...I mean I've read Dawkins and Hitchens..but I don't make videos purporting their ideas as my own without giving credit..

  • @callofreason141  did u copy and paste that? oh, your s.a.t. words make u think youre superior dont they?

  • VENOMFAG! LMAO! ^__^

  • Self refuting.

    Your dog can hear stuff that you can't ... AND WE KNOW IT!

    How could it be? we are so limited, we can't hear as you dog, we are not supposed to know about that ... it must be a god teaching, right?

    Fuckin' lunatic.

  • If consciousness can't be "detected," then how is this retard talking?

  • there is no reason in the bible, or in religion. your points are invalid.

  • I have watched several of VenomFangx's videos now. The depths of his stupidity / ignorance appear to be limitless.

  • @CynicalSkeptic1 I have too and I completely agree. I would also add his arrogance is limitless as well.

  • By the way, freud would like to have a word with you about the mistake you made when typing your desired youtube account username. Be sure not to tell your parents because you would definetaly be kicked out of the church.

  • A much better comparison would have been a hard-boiled egg instead of your hand.

  • Deuteronomy 22:28-29?

    "If a man happens to meet a virgin who is not pledged to be married and rapes her and they are discovered, 29 he shall pay the girl's father fifty shekels of silver. [a] He must marry the girl, for he has violated her. He can never divorce her as long as he lives."

    Matthew 5:18 For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled.

    You may keep a god that allows women to be raped.

  • this dickhead talks bollocks!!!!

  • I guess the atheists problem is that they limit their intellectual scope to what the establishment accepts as valid. But true science dares to challenge itself(just like Einstein did with Newton's theory).Sadly, atheists don't have the guts to question the underlying assumption that human existence is limited to 4 dimensions.When will a true scientist ask himself if there's any chance a part of us might simultaneously exist within at least one of the other 6 dimensions proposed by string theory?

  • @RabinoBoricuaVirtual Balzac, sus ultimos videos son una mierda! omg,que bruto es usted! usted no sabe un carajo de la Torah, y para su informacion, La Torah NO esta corrumpida como usted dice ademas su video es un plagio de un video de mi amigo omedyashar, usted no tiene verguenza, so pendejo.

  • @RabinoBoricuaVirtual "establishment accepts as valid" There are many questions in physics but most people with a common understanding of physics find it highly unlikely there can be a mind devoid of a brain, it appears impossible with our current understanding of what the conscience mind is. I find it odd you believe in string theory do you doubt evolution? Do you understand that in string theory is not testable? And Darwin's theory is testable and proven.

  • Doubts about the supernatural as a Scientific explanation would vanish were ID to produce an epistemology for intersubjective knowledge of the supernatural and a workable methodology for producing orginial data and constructions explanations of it.

    They have not there fort it is not only Scientist who have good reason to be methodoligcal naturalist we all do.

    Because exmploying methodological naturalism is the only way to reach true conclusions about the Universe.

  • Naturalism need not nor does it assume prioi that methological naturalism is the only source of of truth and that claims purportedly derived from intuition and revelation are false there is no methodology for intersubjectivity upon intutition and revealtion to explain the natural world.

    Many theologians admits this Christian beliefs cannot be tested empiricaly or otherwise demonstrated but are known to be true only by those whom God has revealed them.

  • @SuperSharko

    Not entirely true. Several Medicine doctors across the world have been studying for a while now what is commonly referred to as the "out of body" experience of cardiac arrests patients. This has been done in a strictly methodical and scientific fashion. The results of these studies are challenging our most fundamental premises about the relation between mind, brain, and conciousness. The numbers of Doctors doing this is big. You might want to check this one: watch?v=CSuUk9lNM-U

  • @RabinoBoricuaVirtual ""out of body" experience"

    These experiences can be induced with drugs or lack of oxygen. My Grandpa was dead for 4 minutes last month and he doesn't remember seeing anything, matter of fact he has started to doubt his faith because of it.

    The lack of oxygen even caused him to forget his short term memory of the 2 days prior to the heart attack.

    It would be nice if these experiences ever resulted in anything other then hallucinations because they are testable.

  • @RabinoBoricuaVirtuw

    If a nonphysical mind (rather than the brain) does our thinking, then altering the brain (say by lobotomy) should have no effect on one's ability to think. But, in fact, altering the brain does (often dramatically) affect one's ability to think. Therefore, thinking is probably not something done by a nonphysical mind, but rather something that the brain does. And since the brain is destroyed by death, thinking--or one's mind as a whole--is probably destroyed by death too.

  • @RabinoBoricuaVirtual Buddhist and Hindus do not experience the same type of N.E.D's as folks in the west more evidence that religious experiences are strangely predisposed to geography and culture.

    We don't begin by believing everything, then slowly whittling down those beliefs until we have ultimate truth - we look at evidence and draw conclusions. If there is no evidence, then it's obvious that we can assume, until proven otherwise that it does not exist.