That there is reason to believe that experience after death is possible.

Well, I must start out by saying I do not think I will be able to match my opponents length in my argument. Instead I will sum up my opponents argument as best I can and get right to my point. Why is there something rather than nothing?This is the basis of my opponents argument. Why do I exist instead of not? Well, the purpose isn't mine to explain evolution. Neither biological or cosmological. I would refer you to a book and lecture by Prof. Lawrence Krauss "Something from nothing" Which explains in perfect scientific reason why we have a universe from nothing or at least how it's possible. In a nut shell, nothing, has mass. There is a lot going on in nothing, on the quantum level anyway. If you have about an hour I would recommend this lecture.http://youtu.be...My opponent brings up great ideas and has a wonderful element of philosophy. However, the topic is that there is Reason to believe experience is possible. I have seen no such reason demonstrated by him whatsoever. In his last statement, he said "In other words, at death, there is reason to believe there will be an interval in which I do not exist. With that, I will satisfy the first term of my present state of affairs which gives me reason to believe that it is possible that an interval of consciousness and experience will follow."This could be true, and everything else he stated could be a scientific fact. However all he said was that this gives HIM reason to believe. This may not apply to most or anyone else. I see the Big Dipper in the sky, that gives me reason to believe someone dropped a pan in space. This doesn't make it true, or at the very least, true for anyone else.You were in fact something else, a state of being as he put it before your conscious self. Atoms, sub-atomic particles created in the nuclear furnace of a star billions of years ago. Would you refer to this state of "being" a conscious one? I hardly think so. You may indeed return your atoms to the earth and they will do what they do. You will not be aware of it, nor is there any reason to believe you would. It all comes down to evidence, not philosophy, not hope, and not wishful thinking. My opponent has provided a great philosophical debate, even something worth thinking about, but without evidence there can be no reason. Reason without evidence is faith. The topic was "There is reason to believe experience after death is possible." Not "I have faith that experience after death is possible."Because we wish something to be true, does not provide evidence, thus no reason to state that it is indeed factual. To quote Carl Sagan "If we wish to know the truth of our origins and our destinies, we must embrace the facts the Universe gives us, and put aside reassuring fables, no matter how fond of them we are."Science and evidence has provided no reason to believe that there is indeed a state of conscious after life. It hasn't provided evidence to the contrary either. We must go with facts provided and change our thoughts on each subject as new facts arise. Until there is evidence to suggest that an after death state of conscious being is possible, then there will be no reason to believe otherwise.