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Author Dinesh D'Souza Says Life After Death Can be Proved

By Opposing Views Editorial Staff , To Protect and Serve Opposing Views - November 05, 2009

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Conservative author Dinesh D'Souza recently spoke with Fox's Greta Van Susteren about his new book "Life After Death: The Evidence," in which he purports that documented cases of near death experiences give true, scientific credence to the prospect of an afterlife.

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VIDEO: Author Dinesh D'Souza Says Life After Death Can be Proved

I'm sure

this will be just as embarrassing as his last attempt at attaching pseudo-scientific principles to quantum mechanics to "prove" God existed in "What's So Great About, Christianity?"

There is also no research to support his view, so I'm sure it will be just as embarrassing. There is a hypothesis that in "near-death experiences" the pineal gland will release large amounts of DMT which will cause similar effects. It's highly speculative, but its far more plausible than any scientific research "proving" that life after death exists - which science can say nothing about besides that no evidence suggests that its true.

- caelum November 5, 2009 11:03AM

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- been there, etc.
  
  Read my comment and then see if you have an intelligent counter..
  
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I think Ebenezer said it best

•"You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!"

This guy should be tarred and feathered for even suggesting scientific credence.

What a lamer...

- Submariner November 5, 2009 12:10PM

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Been there done that

I have had a near death experience during open heart surgery. Saw part of procedure and also saw doctors massage my heart during stoppage and did not want to "come back" but did so. Are you going to tell me I'm crazy? I believe I have more faith in what happened to me than you could ever have in disputing what you have no proof of one way or the other...

- stw November 5, 2009 9:02PM

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- this isn't evidence
  
  "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence." - Carl Sagan
  
  Not saying you are crazy. You probably believe you saw that. Unfortunately, that isn't evidence. If you want to play the science game, you've got to play by the science rules. There are other more reasonable explanations: you were on medication , your sense of time was affected, just the fact that you could easily have had a dream that you went through that...sorry, but those are reasonable, possible explanations.
  
  Christians remind me of my cats. They will pounce on anything, no matter how bizarre, just so they can stop having to rely on faith. They would love for there to be some real evidence for God and a promise of an afterlife. In order to achieve that evidence, they are quick to lower their standards of what counts as evidence.
  
  If I told you that I was certain that Carl Sagan visited me in a dream and told me to find him in the desert, you would be suspicious and shake your head if I ran off to find him. Especially if you knew that I REALLY wanted to meet Carl Sagan. And especially if I was in a situation where death was near, I was afraid and medications were involved.
  
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Been there done that

I have had a near death experience during open heart surgery. Saw part of procedure and also saw doctors massage my heart during stoppage and did not want to "come back" but did so. Are you going to tell me I'm crazy? I believe I have more faith in what happened to me than you could ever have in disputing what you have no proof of one way or the other...

- stw November 5, 2009 9:03PM

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