<DIV>Chas,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>That is EXACTLY what he is asserting;</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>"<STRONG><U>If people knew that there is no life after death</U></STRONG>, only life before <BR>death, they would live their lives more realistically."---Ralph Neilson</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I ask, how can anyone KNOW that. A simple question which Ralph refuses to answer. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Best Regards,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Donovan <BR><BR><BR><BR><B><I>Chasuk <chasuk@gmail.com></I></B> wrote:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 6:13 PM, Donovan Arnold<BR><DONOVANJARNOLD2005@YAHOO.COM>wrote:<BR><BR>> What I am debating is your assertion that someone can know there is no<BR>> afterlife.<BR><BR>That isn't what he is asserting, actually. I provide this recent<BR>excerpt as evidence of your error:<BR><BR>"Donovan
and other Xian believers don't KNOW that there IS life after<BR>death, whereas I know that there is no evidence for such a claim. And<BR>the more we learn in science, the more unrealistic such beliefs<BR>become."<BR><BR>To wit, Ralph finds the Christian belief in an afterlife unrealistic,<BR>but this is not the same as possessing certain knowledge of the<BR>non-existence of an afterlife, which he has not claimed. Ralph is<BR>expressing the same reasonable doubt that a Christian might.<BR><BR>Chas<BR><BR>=======================================================<BR>List services made available by First Step Internet, <BR>serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994. <BR>http://www.fsr.net <BR>mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com<BR>=======================================================<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><p>