Reply to "Upcoming debate at UNA: God does not exist"

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I saw this debate and I was astonished that Balir Scott devoted so much time in his opening statement to the self-imposed task of showing that "near death experiences" (NDE) do not prove the existence of God. I know of no Christian apologists who would argue that NDEs prove anything other than that the mind can play strange tricks, especially when impinged upon by unusually strong stresses. Sure, there are some books and articles in the popular press that recount in great detail the reported experiences of persons who have had a NDE and thought they had entered some kind of domain of the afterlife, but to use 25% of his time to bumble around with his irrelevant red herring/straw man argument centered on NDEs was certainly an inefficient way for Scott to kick off his portion of the debate.

9/30/112:14 PM

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