---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <steve.sundur@...> wrote :
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <steve.sundur@...> wrote : And that is why I replied to Barry's request. But then I was accused of pestering him to reply to me. But yes Richard, that is the issue that I think atheists don't want to go near. They are better off staying in full denial, and passing off incidents that defy an easy explanation as just some sort of weird coincidence. "Science works in mysterious ways" or at least there is some scientific explanation for this or that occurrence, but the science has not progressed sufficiently to explain it. How do we explain things like a child being obsessed with events that took place before he was born, and knowing details about such events when he has had no exposure to them. How does something like that occur? A better question for you to ask would be, why doesn't it happen to everyone if reincarnation is a common occurrence? Why to so very few? One of the major stories I know of like that is of a Scottish boy who said he came from an island where planes land on the beach. It turns out there is one, called Barra. His family claimed there was no way he could have known but even when they were being interviewed there was a TV on in the background. I'm all for getting scientific about things like this but they are extremely rare and so not easy to test. Basically you have to iron out the possibility of them picking the information up anywhere else. The plural of anecdote really isn't data, I've yet to see a story like this that has reliable facts that are certain not to have been isolated from the child. And like a lot of beliefs about the mind it lacks any known mechanism about how it might work, which doesn't mean it can't but it would also have to explain why it works so rarely. Tricky for something physical. If that's what it is. Everyone dreams for instance. Seems to me that knowledge of previous lives would be immensely useful, why do we forget it?
