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RE: Claiming to know the one thing we can't know!
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....
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......