An update on NDE's

[paul becke]

Here is an update on Near Death Experiences by Louisiana oncologist, Dr Jeffrey Long:

http://www.spiritdaily.com/drlong.htm

 

[Davian]

The "best possible news of something beyond" is an argument from ignorance.

Don't know how that works? [insert religious beliefs] did it.

Is this news to you?

 

[JohnSerew]

This has to do with smart stupid people. We know where NDE's come from and it isn't interesting. Oxygen deprivation is enough to explain almost everything about NDE's. Oncologists or neurologists who have them and claim it was actually an experience from the afterlife are either lying or incredibly stupid. Usually, medicine involves learning a bunch of facts, not understanding critical thinking.

 

[paul becke]

This has to do with smart stupid people. We know where NDE's come from and it isn't interesting. Oxygen deprivation is enough to explain almost everything about NDE's. Oncologists or neurologists who have them and claim it was actually an experience from the afterlife are either lying or incredibly stupid. Usually, medicine involves learning a bunch of facts, not understanding critical thinking.

Even the remotest possibility of oxygen deprivation causing NDEs has been proved to be non-existent. It simply cannot account for them.

Below is a list of refutations of materialists' putative explanations of NDEs:

http://ncu9nc.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/materialist-explanations-of-ndes-fail.html#nde_explain_oxygen


.. and a quote from the right-hand column:

Sir John Eccles (Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine): I maintain that the human mystery is incredibly demeaned by scientific reductionism, with its claim in promissory materialism to account eventually for all of the spiritual world in terms of patterns of neuronal activity. This belief must be classed as a superstition ... we have to recognize that we are spiritual beings with souls existing in a spiritual world as well as material beings with bodies and brains existing in a material world.

 

[Archaeopteryx]

Before clicking on the thread, I had hoped the OP would link to some relevant scientific literature on the topic. Disappointed.