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Originally Posted by Og  Science is beginning to address your second question. The first one is not really something that can be addressed. "Reason" things are not really in the realm of science. It also seems a bit of an anthropomorphized question too. Implies causality and rationale. |
Question 2 relates more to the question of a "soul" or "spirit," something of our conscious mind that survives our physical deaths. While I agree that there is
zero credible evidence that consciousness, whole or in part, survives one's physical death, I do not view the belief of a "life after death" or immortality of an immaterial soul to be ridiculous or absurd. I, for one, am not 100% convinced that my conscious self is simply the product of the 100 million (or so) neurons in my brain and the 1,000 trillion (or so) synaptic connections between them. I am not saying that there is "something more" to my conscious mind than my brain, and I am certainly
not claiming any evidence for "something more," but I do not consider the belief of an immaterial, eternal soul to be absurd, only unfounded, and not necessarily something that is "extremely improbable," either.