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Immortality: it's the atheists who are irrational, not the believers
Life After Death: The Evidence
by Dinesh D'Souza
Is death the end? That's the ultimate question that has
preoccupied mankind from the beginning of time to the
present. And in truth, there is no more important question
in life -- it is the one issue that makes every other issue
trivial, for death is the great wrecking ball that destroys
everything. But does anything lie beyond that great
disruption, that terrible dissolution? Bestselling author
Dinesh D'Souza answers that question with a resounding
"yes." In his new blockbuster, Life After Death: The
Evidence, he offers solid proof that death is not the end --
and shows why the rational side of this debate is the side
that believes in the afterlife, while those clinging to
blind faith are the ones who say that the end of this life
is the extinguishing of all human existence.
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Surprisingly enough, unlike many books about the afterlife,
Life After Death makes no appeal at all to religious faith,
divine revelation, or sacred texts. Instead, D'Souza
(author of What's So Great About Christianity) makes a
powerful and unique case by drawing on some of the most
persuasive new theories and trends in physics, evolutionary
biology, science, philosophy, and psychology. As he does
so, D'Souza shows why the atheist critique of immortality
is irrational -- and demonstrates that to believe in life
after death is to affirm reason at its most fundamental
level.
Life After Death makes three distinct and eye-opening
arguments for life after death: one from neuroscience, one
from philosophy, and one from morality. Each of these
arguments is decisive by itself; collectively, they offer a
convincing legal brief for the afterlife. D'Souza does not
prove life after death beyond a reasonable doubt, but he
meets the civil standard of proving his case by a
preponderance of the evidence -- and also shows why it is
good for us to believe in life after death even in the
absence of complete certainty. Most compellingly of all,
D'Souza provides a case study -- the only one in history --
that shows how life after death isn't just a future
prospect, but has already happened for a single individual,
thereby opening up a stunning new possibility: not just
life after death, but eternal life right now.
The assertion that death is not the end is a factual claim,
insists D'Souza; it can be reasonably assessed. Life After
Death: a solidly argued case for the truth of the
afterlife, and a ringing affirmation of how life after
death can give depth and significance to this life, a path
to happiness, and a reason for hope.
Exploring the afterlife with Dinesh D'Souza:
- How our culture, which prides itself on its open-
mindedness and candor, shows an intense antipathy to
facing the greatest of all human questions
- Why the common feature of all scientific hypotheses
developed in order to explain the origin of life is the
avoidance of miracles and supernatural explanations
- The test of a good theory: not only the validity of its
reasoning but also whether it helps to explain things
that would otherwise remain mysterious
- Science and the scientific method: its little-noted but
all-important "blind spot"
- The remarkable implications of the Big Bang theory of the
origin of the universe
- The prevailing outlook of elites in the Britain and
America for the past couple of hundred years -- and how it
clouds our understanding of basic and quite obvious
truths that support the reality of life after death
- The one way to give a natural explanation of the fine-
tuned universe -- an explanation that, not surprisingly,
some leading scientists have enthusiastically advanced
- Dualism: why it is gaining new respect and new adherents
among philosophers and scientists
- Reincarnation? Why some people hold so tenaciously to
this idea -- and why it ultimately must be rejected by
reasonable people
- The two most widely held contemporary theories of
materialism -- and why each fails to account for crucial
and incontrovertible facts
- How atheists who insist that life after death is a
religious concept may be surprised to discover that it is
also a philosophical idea widely discussed in the fifth
century B.C.
- Near death experiences: they don't prove life after
death, but they do suggest it is possible
- Near death research: how it has faced derision and even
ferocious attack from various quarters -- including,
surprisingly, attack and derision from religious
believers who might be expected to welcome this empirical
support for one of the central premises of their faith
- How the progression of evolution on earth shows an
unmistakable trajectory from matter to mind
- Why all evolutionary attempts to explain morality
ultimately miss the point, seeking to explain morality
but even at their best explaining what is not morality at
all
- The odd form of materialism that does not completely rule
out the possibility of life after death
- How several of the greatest ideas and institutions of
Western civilization were shaped by a firmly held vision
of transcendence and life after death
- Why even the four-dimensional world of space and time
envisioned by Einstein may be part of a larger
multidimensional world, several of whose dimensions are
hidden from us
- How the existence of moral values that stand athwart our
animal nature presupposes the reality of cosmic justice,
achieved not in this life but in another life beyond the
grave
- How the concepts of eternity and life after death, far
from being hostile to life and civilization as the
atheists allege, have in fact shaped some our greatest
and most beneficial social and political ideals, ideals
that are shared by religious and secular people alike
- Four clear benefits provided by belief in the afterlife
- Four concrete facts in the accounts of the resurrection
of Jesus Christ that have to be accounted for by anyone
attempting to deny the resurrection
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