Life After Death: The Evidence D'Souza, Dinesh

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 ...