Buddhism is an obviously incorrect religion

Oh, now you are starting to make the right questions. However, I must notice that in this round you have fundamentally changed your main point, so, unless you can prove that these questions presented by you can sustain the claims you made in the first round, this should be considered a concession. Now, to answer your questions, the truth is, despite the huge differences relative to the monotheistic religions we are used to, Buddhism is still a religion, so, a good deal of what is teached in Buddhism is based on faith. However there is a lot of logic on the idea of reincarnation, and it's by no means an "obviously incorrect" idea. In fact, many academics have studied this idea and reached surprising conclusions.For example, Dr Jim B. Tucker (1), a prominent scholar in child psychiatry, have conducted several studies in young children that had been said to have memories of past lifes. In one of the many cases (2) he studied, a child of just 2 years old started having nightmares in which he was in plane crash. When his parents asked for details in his dreams, he said that he was a pilot and that his plane had been shot down in Iwo Jima, he also remembered of a boat named Natoma, and that he had a friend there named Jack Larsen. After several years researching the battle of Iwo Jima, his father discovered that there was a real carrier named Natoma, and that this carrier did had a plane that was shot down in the battle of Iwo Jima, and also one of the pilots there was named Jack Larsen. This is just an example, there are many other cases studied by Tucker, and in most of the cases, this memories appears in very young children, and they disappear when they reach 5, 6 or 7 years of age. Now, it's possible that there are other explanations for this, but so far, it seems to be a strong evidence of reincarnation.There is not enough scientific evidence to prove that the mind is part of the physical reality. It's actually very likely that consciousness exists as a separate entity from the physical world, and if that's the case, it's not impossible that, once a consciousness is detached from a physical body (through death), it can reconnect with another body that doesn't yet have a consciousness. A counsciousness doesn't need to have all the memories it had gone through. People can suffer amnesia and memory loss, but their consciousness remain the same, it's totaly possible that a traumatic experience such as death could earase most or all of the memory of a consciousness without destroying the consciousness itself.Yet Buddhism has a much more complex way of understand consciousness that personally I don't comprehend entirely, but, as I sid in the note I gave in the last round, Buddhists don't believe in a "soul" as we commonly understand. Buddhists actually believe that durring the process of rebirth, the consciousness of the person or creature being born isn't entirely the same as the one of that person or creature that died, but rather something that is neither identical nor completely different from the original consciousness (3). Apparently, this is just as complex as it sounds, so we would need years of study to fully understand this logic, but one thing is certain: It's not illogical at all.(1) http://en.wikipedia.org... (2) http://www.npr.org... (3) http://en.wikipedia.org...(Buddhism)