Reincarnation is real

Contention 1: Children memoriesDr. Ian Stevenson has investigated research for reincarnation on children. He did so by gathering cases on 3,000 children who remember specific details of their previous life. The things that the they remembered where:-Being able to identify who their love-ones in their past-life. -Being able to identify homes, neighbourhoods, and friends that are still alive. -Being able to recall birthmarks and wounds that lead to the death of their previous incarnation. The data has shown that the information that kids shared in these interviews matches up with certain corpses, houses, neighboorhoods, living people, etc. This obviously is not from luck, as out of the 7 billion people on Earth, billions of households, and the high amount of corpses that exist in this world, for thousands of kids that were investigated (and these are just a few thousand kids) to be able to identify specific features of another life just because they guessed would be virtually impossible and unbelievable. Also, there is a statistic that shows that 70% of children out of 2,500 that were investigated by Jim B. Tucker claim that their death was unnatural and violent. This statistic links to another one: 70% of the deceased individuals that matched up with the childrens claims were male. 60% of the children that made claims were male. This means that 60% of the children matched up with the deceased individuals that were the previous incarnations. Once again, this is not luck, it occurs naturally. As a final example, there was a case of someone named Charles Richet who was born knowing how to speak Swedish. This one example proves reincarnation exists because it would be logically impossible for his brain to have the knowledge of how to speak Swedish unless it was passed on from a previous incarnation, and in that case, reincarnation is indeed real. Contention 2: Substance DualismTo link the first contention into this one, we must first understand what substance dualism is. Substance dualism is a philosophy that supports the idea of two different types of substances that exist within the mind. Mental and physical. The physical substances take up space, and do not contain thoughts of any kind. Mental substances have thoughts, and do not take up space in the physical universe. There is currently no scientific and concrete evidence that thoughts are physical, so therefore, they must be separate from matter or energy itself. P1) If Substance Dualism is true, the mind is separate from the physical brain and is not matter or energy. P2) If the mind is not physical, by process of elimination, it would have to be a mental substanceC2) Substance Dualism is true, because the mind is a mental substance, while the matter inside the brain is physical. This contention ties in with the last because when combined, give substantial proof for reincarnation. It has been proven that the mind and the physical brain are separate, children can remember specific details of previous incarnations, and that someone was born knowing how to speak a language, and that knowledge could only possibly be obtained by previous memory regarding the mental substance from a soul. Sources:1] . http://reluctant-messenger.com...2] . http://uvamagazine.org...3] . http://listverse.com...;