God Arises Argument for the Life Hereafter
many cases have contained numerous items of evidence, of the very kinds which, for instance, would satisfy one of the identity of a person claiming to be his brother, with whom he could communicate at the time only through the intermediary of some third person or by telephone.”20 Most contemporary scholars are hesitant about accepting the evidence furnished by psychical research. C.D. Broad writes: “Barring the doubtful exceptions of psychical research, none of the different branches of science prove even the remotest possibility of life after death.”21 This argument is as unsound as saying that “thinking” is a rather dubious phenomenon because, except for man, we have never been able to place anything in the universe under observation which testifies to the phenomenon of “thinking”. Since the survival or extinction of life after death is a purely psychological problem, any evidence, either for or against, must be produced by psychology alone. To seek affirmation from any ~ 237 ~