Thanks for dropping in ardent. No, that is not correct. I place a very high value on science and empiricism but there are definitive limits to that kind of knowledge.........That isn't a justification for religious assertions about what happens to someone when they die. I stand by facts on that one: they are dead! That is all we know for sure....
Any other claim is sheer speculation and beyond the scope of human knowledge. Any human making a definitive claim on the issue is completely mistaken.
BTW: I have no problem with anyone believing anything they like about the afterlife, just have some epistemological humility and frame the assertion as speculative and not definitive....
RE: Claiming to know the one thing we can't know!
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Claiming to know the one thing we can't know!
Maybe an example would help: say I'm a scientist that discovered tachyons, and then declared to everyone that tachyons spoke to me telepathically; in science, the claim wouldn't be enough, the claim would have to be verified and repeatable by a large number of peers. Religion offers no such shared repeatable evidence, until such time as it does we should all take a long deep step back from our religious assertions about invisible things......
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