Where is the evidence that people actually die?

Started by FreethinkingSceptic, January 08, 2026, 05:57:49 PM

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FreethinkingSceptic

If you want evidence that people actually die, you will need a video recording of every single person dying.

Unless you're able to provide that, you might witness yourself up to the moment of death, or maybe have actually witnessed another individual person dying, but you certainly won't be able to see every person dying with your own eyes.

Therefore, I find the idea that everyone actually dies to be skeptical, and for all you know, people, or at least some people, may not actually die.

Paleophyte

Yet another example that theists don't know how evidence works.

  • I have evidence that some people die. Look! A corpse! Evidence!
  • I do not have any evidence that everybody dies. That would involve killing all of you, and there are international bodies that would get tetchy about that.
    • But since we know what the mechanisms that produce death are.
    • And that those mechanisms appear to be common to all living creatures.
  • And we have no evidence that anybody has ever managed to not die, other than in the most mundane circumstances.
  • So it's pretty reasonable to believe that everybody dies.
  • Unless you have evidence to the contrary.
    • Please try to remember that your claim of people not dying would be considered extraordinary by most standards.
    • As such, it will require extraordinary evidence
    • Not:
      • An argument. Arguments are not evidence.
      • Some dull scripture, indistinguishable from the ramblings of any other Bronze Age barbarians.
      • Unsupported claims of miracles that we can't verify because... [Reasons]
      • Tall tales.

There you go. Have fun.

Gawdzilla Sama

Quote from: FreethinkingSceptic on January 08, 2026, 05:57:49 PMIf you want evidence that people actually die, you will need a video recording of every single person dying.

To prove you were born we'd need a video of your Mom's vagina during the birth process.
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the_antithesis

He was born?

There goes my spore theory.

Gawdzilla Sama

Quote from: the_antithesis on Today at 01:06:43 AMHe was born?

There goes my spore theory.

♫Spore, spore, spitiful me♫
We 'new atheists' have a reputation for being militant, but make no mistake  we didn't start this war. If you want to place blame put it on the the religious zealots who have been poisoning the minds of the  young for a long long time."
PZ Myers