How can scientists say there is no such thing as the after life when it is clearly stated within science that matter cannot either be created nor destroyed? I don't get it.
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Lady Justice
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It may just be me but I dont see how my body being broken down into its basic elements counts as an afterlife.
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Well, think of it this way: Our bodies, organs, and consciousness rely on a system of electrical and chemical impulses. When we die, those impulses cease, or in many cases, we die BECAUSE they cease. When a battery dies, is there an afterlife for the battery? When you turn off a computer, are you creating or destroying matter? Metaphysics aside, nobody knows whether or not there is an afterlife, or even a human soul that somehow exists after death. Matter and energy can not be created or destroyed, but they can be changed. Your body isn't "destroyed" when you die, but it does decompose. Same for the energy that makes you a living organism.
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Scientists don't say that at all. They are merely incapable of providing a scientific basis on which to base the conclusion to be true. Many scientists, Newton and Einstein for example, believed in God. EDIT- Doubting Thomas, thanks for the feedback. I'm in the same boat as you buddy, I can't figure out how atheists can use science as a back up for their beliefs either. Atheism is as much a belief system as any religion, just as Christians use the Bible as their ultimate authority, atheists use science for the same purpose. If you ask scientists themselves what they believe, many believe in god, most know you can't prove one way or the other, and only a few are atheists. Atheists have no authority to use science to back up their beliefs, if they examined the scientific evidence, they would be agnostic. It's just a case of someone utilising any tool at their disposal to back up what they feel is right.
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Life is not matter. First, you have to believe in eternity. Well, you are alive for some reason, right? And life cannot start on its own. Where would you get your personality? How did time begin? It didn't begin on its own. Time is only a point on the timeline of eternity. Second, you have to think if time will ever end. According to Stein's law, if a thing does not go on forever, it will stop. Time is going to stop sometime, and we will enter eternity. Third, you have to decide if you will last for eternity. Yes, you will, because we all die. Why? Because there's plenty of room in eternity for all of us. Fourth, where will you be for eternity? Well, if you love Jesus, it's gonna be in Heaven with Him. Forever. If you choose the other option, you're stuck there for eternity. What's it going to be? Nice, eh? ;-)
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Yeah, plus everyone knows that we are gonna be beautiful Weeping Willows or someones next christmas tree when we die.... *cough*haha*cough*
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Because Life is not "matter". It is that which animates the matter of which our bodies are composed and provide us with conscious awareness. The laws you speak of are referred to as the "Law of Conservation of Energy", and applies to the physical world. It says nothing, nor can it say anything, about the essence of life itself which does not fall within the physical realm which these laws deal with. Our physical bodies do, yes... but the force which animates them does not... http://www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/Sciences/Chemistry/Generalchemistry/Energy/LawofConservation/LawofConservation.htm
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Life is not matter. Life is an organization of matter. The matter is not destroyed, it becomes worms etc. Organization certainly can be destroyed.
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