Life And Death And Death After Life

“When Gupta was asked how a physician deals with such apparent medical miracles, he fell into the fallacy of the argument from ignorance: ‘When I was researching this for a long time, I thought I was going to explain it all away physiologically. But things that I heard and validated and subsequently believed convinced me that there were things that I could not explain. There were things that were happening at that moment, that near-death experience moment, that simply could not be explained with existing scientific knowledge.’ So what? The fact that we cannot fully explain a mystery with natural means does not mean it requires a supernatural explanation. It just means that we don’t know everything. Such uncertainty is at the very heart of science and is what makes it such a challenging enterprise.”
–Michael Shermer writes an entertaining and important piece in Scientific American

about his experience of going on “Larry King Live” in December to discuss near-death experiences-or, as some of his less-convincing fellow guests from that night might put it, “life after death.” (Deepak Chopra goes off!) Also: it’s March, so, Biggie!