QUOTE(whale_shark @ Aug 25 2007, 08:26 AM)

Well it is not really smart to think that if humans can't find the explanation for something it must be the work of God or SOMETHING(and this is what you are trying to say isn't it). No one knows what really happened and the big bang theory is just theory so it doesn't have to be true. There are many other theories(and mathematical models of universe) about beginning and in some of them there is no beginning but most of them are very hard to understand unlike the big bang theory and this is why everyone thinks there was a big bang:because for average human being that is very easy to understand to(while he can't accept that universe didn't have beginning which is basis of some other theories). There is simple way to imagine that universe didn't have beginning:we all say universe doesn't have limits, so if it doesn't have limits in space why would it have to have limits in time.
Now to the original topic. The idea of after life started when humans where very primitive compared to today. then they believed then that Earth has edges and that you fall of if you stepped from the edge further no matter what shape they imagined(circle, square,...) and we all know that isn't true. we all know how life works that it is just physics and chemistry and yet people can't forget this old belief about afterlife probably because they can't accept how insignificant in fact they are. So to answer the question in the title of this topic: THERE ISN'T LIFE AFTER DEATH.
I agree with you in the fact that life works just due to physics and chemistry, we seem to have gotten stuck in the idea that everything has be explained under finite circumstances. We can't seem to comprehend that somethings just don't have a beginning or an end (and yes I have no actual proof that the universe has no beginning or that there would be no end, but in the other hand also there is no actual proof that the universe has a beginning). But is there really no life after death, for the being that died obviously there is not, but there are many organisms that due come to life once any living organism dies so technically the death of one organism allowed the existence of another.
QUOTE(Mermaid711 @ Aug 25 2007, 10:23 AM)

*Off topic*
So you along with Carson, have passed away and have the answer to this question? Wow. I sure feel mortal right now

Anyways, that isn't the answer to a question. I to, along with the big bang and the bible are theores. However you failed to explain to me how we just came out of nowhere, big bang or not, with out divine intervention. That's right. YOU CAN'T. However, being rimitive 300 years ago has nothing to do with what will happen as you pass away.
*Sorta On topic*
I believe in an existince after death. I am a christian, and I don't giv a flying fig with what you think about it. Just because I believe in a God and in an existance after death does not make me primitave or ignorant in anyway. Sure I could be wrong. Whatever.
*On topic*
There can not be life without a drive behind it IN MY OPINION! However if we are no more than mortal beings we have nothing to lose in religon. There is nothing wrong with believing in a God or other supernatural being. So yes, I BELIEVE in life afer death.
Call me a Jesus Freak. I don't care.
So you yourself along with Carson and whale_shark passed away and have the answer to the question? right?
Ok, maybe we can't explain how we came out of nowhere, well, at least I can't. I don't know whether I can explain the existence of life without using theory, big bang or not, but since you yourself considered the bible to be also just theory can't explain without using the bible to explain that we came from somewhere. This all becomes a vicious circle due to the fact that one has the absolute truth. So it is wisest to say as the old saying says, "I only know that I know nothing."
Answering the question Is there life after death? Yes, there is life after
Answering the question is there an after life? No, I personally do not believe there is an after life. I could be right, I could be wrong. I guess I'll find out later on.
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