I can’t provide any empirical data of physics and chemistry? You mean me? Moi? Of course I can’t provide empirical data. I’m not a physicist or a chemist.

I don’t ignore verifiable evidence. There are people who experience an NDE, “come back,” and say heaven exists. That’s an extra-ordinary statement. When the statement is supplemented by extra-ordinary evidence, I’ll listen. Simply being told “what happened” when nearly dead doesn’t persuade me.

“I don’t want to see a book reference as a response.” What? Why? If you’re presumably in love with the world of ideas, why spurn a book that helps clarify or add to a point that someone is making in a conversation? I find this to be a strange but common conversational tactic among theists. Okay, in between writing tweets I don’t expect anyone to read a book, but I get this kind of thing often on Twitter. “No, no! I don’t want to see some stupid essay. I want you to tell me why you think what you think.” Or somesuch similar complaint. Sure, I can speak and write extemporaneously because I can certainly tell you what’s on my mind, but what’s on my mind is often shaped and influenced by things I’ve read and thought about and discussed with other people. I can’t speak for you, but it’s an amusing tell that so many theists are leery of straying away from That Book. Read Oliver Sacks.

I don’t mean to suggest this cartoon illustrates you, but it does a pretty good job of summing up the lives of many theists. It’s a strange way to live.