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I recently realized that scientific method is not applicable to near-death and after-death experiences! When we attempt to apply scientific method to it, scientific method produces a clear mistake.

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Scientific method in its essence is based on the principle that the reality is (approximately) what we see (or measure with measurement instruments, that is see indirectly).

What happens when a man lives? One of scientifically correct answers is it happens approximately what he sees.

Also science is based on the principle that all seers are equal. Following this principle we get that we have no reason to completely deny experience of any particular man about life of a man (including experience of any man about his own life). (Experience of a man may contain mistakes which are to be corrected with scientific method, but if we follow scientific method, it is never to be denied completely.)

The next step, again following the basic principles of science: The body of a living man is nothing special, just a big heap of atoms and radio waves. So when a man dies (from the position of physics) nothing principally changes. As nothing principally changed, we have no reason to deny the dead seer!

Dead does not see in the old way, but his atoms continue to perceive light, waves, touchings, etc. as well as a living person. So from the position of physics the dead seers is a seer indeed. (His atoms like atoms of any physical object at all) continue to perceive information.

I concluded that from positions of physics we cannot deny a dead seer. So following the above mentioned basic principle of physics that the world is how one sees it, we must conclude that the dead continues to see the world. This is a conclusion to which basic principles of science lead...

Has world changed after death of a man? Physics says that it is not a significant change. So dead is to continue to see the same world as living. So, he should continue to see approximately the same!

So what is my conclusion? My conclusion is scientific method is wrong. Following the rules of scientific method we have come to the absurd of consulting the opinion of a dead person. Certainly science is useful, but not in questions concerning what is seen when death happens.

that scientific method is wrong in certain cases, we need to search for an other method to replace it. Severely wrong (for our issue) scientific method indeed brought us to the same conclusion as most religions (including Christianity), that mind continues to function after death.

Now we have one more reason to believe Bible.

See also my message Intellect of Man: Brain or Soul? (New Christian Idea).