Life after Death

The Evidence

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Life after Death

By: Dinesh D’Souza

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

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Is there life beyond the grave? Is it reasonable to believe in the afterlife? If so, how should we act on those beliefs?

Best-selling author Dinesh D'Souza undertakes an unprecedented voyage of intellectual discovery to reveal the truth about life, death and beyond. Unlike many books about the afterlife, Life After Death makes no appeal to religious faith, divine revelation, or sacred texts. Drawing on some of the most powerful theories and trends in physics, evolutionary biology, science, philosophy, and psychology, D'Souza shows why the atheist critique of immortality is irrational - and draws the striking conclusion that it is reasonable to believe in life after death.

He concludes by showing how life after death can give depth and significance to this life, a path to happiness, and reason for hope.

Dinesh D’SouzaRobertson DeanBlackstone Audio, Inc.

Christian Living

Christianity

Religious Studies

Spirituality

Parapsychology

Near-Death Experience

Metaphysical

Humanism

Morality

Christian Living Christianity Religious Studies Spirituality Parapsychology Near-Death Experience Metaphysical Humanism Morality

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"Writing not only for the religious believer but also for the honest seeker, Dinesh D'Souza displays a sophisticated understanding of religion, philosophy, history, and science in making a convincing case for life after death." (Deepak Chopra)

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This is a scholarly work, and D’Souza is obviously widely read, however as the book progresses his evangelical fervour leads him into willful blindness and exaggerated claims.

The book starts convincingly with a well honed philosophical defence of theism against a range of New Atheist critiques as to the impossibility of life after death.

However, as the book progresses, his evangelism leads him into rather ludicrous claims. For instance, his three arguments for God/afterlife he describes as “proofs”. They are no such thing! Having ‘proved’ some form of generalised possibility of existence beyond death, he then, by sleight of hand presumes he’s “proved” the existence of Heaven & Hell, and goes on to try to coerce us (using Pascal’s Wager) into belief in order to avoid eternal damnation.

Moreover, his understanding of Evolution is highly simplistic. His assumption that morality cannot have evolved naturally flies in the face of the theory. “Moral Foundations” theory for instance outlined in Jonathan Haidt’s “The Righteous Mind” gives a full account of the evolutionary origins of his “moral dimensions”. D.S Wilson’s “Darwin’s Cathedral” likewise gives an evolutionary account of the origins of morality and religion based on Multi-Level Selection. Shermer’s “The Moral Arc” and Pinkers “Better Angels of our Nature” shows how our cognitive evolution hones our moral compass.

In his critique of the “Hard Problem” of consciousness too, D’Souza never considers panpsychism as an option, e.g. that of Whitehead, though panpsychism is a favoured solution by many philosophers of consciousness such as David Chalmers.

In his chapter on Jesus, he refers to, and treats the events in the Gospels as “historical fact”, rather than often contradictory and objectively unsupported accounts penned 70+ years after the events by zealous believers.

Finally, D’Souza shows a profound misunderstanding of agnosticism. Darwin and Huxley were both agnostics, which is not a failure to make a decision, but rather the holding of two (or more) different but valid points of view simultaneously.

Overall, the book is a good refutation of the necessity of atheism, but his exaggerated claims and willful blindness make dubious arguments for the evangelical beliefs he tries to foist onto us.