Continued from part two… 11. Guilt by Association Ad Hominem In his BICS essay Nahm repeatedly characterizes criticisms of reincarnation research found among both skeptics and proponents of psychical research as the objections of (no doubt inherently untrustworthy) skeptics (which, therefore, evidently discredit themselves). For example, there’s no question that Paul Edwards‘ 1996 Reincarnation: A … Survival Researcher or Christian Apologist? Could You Tell the Difference? (Part 3 of 3)

Continued from last time… 6. It’s Depressing, Therefore It’s False In my opening critique I quoted Dean Radin and co. stating: “Materialism tells us that there is no purpose to anything. When we die, we are forever extinguished, and our atoms are recycled into other purposeless creatures. Eventually, all the suns will burn out, the … Survival Researcher or Christian Apologist? Could You Tell the Difference? (Part 2 of 3)

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.     — Bertrand Russell, “An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish” (1943) In my critique of the Bigelow Institute for Consciousness Studies (BICS) essay competition on the “best” evidence for life after death and my … Survival Researcher or Christian Apologist? Could You Tell the Difference? (Part 1 of 3)