Martin Aitken

ut this of course says nothing about whether miracles occur or do not occur, only that we can never be certain that what we see in fact exists outside our minds, or exists in the way that we see it.

I know that my body will die, however hard that may be to believe—but equally I know that the part of me that is will never die.

Life after death cannot be proven—but neither can it be disproved. No scientist can with any certainty say that life after death does not occur. He may say that much would suggest it does not, and substantiate his claim with reference to the logic of matter and the physical world. But logical parameters will naturally capture only what is logical; the non-logical slips through its mesh.
Does the non-logical exist?
If we stand at the boundary of the logical, is there anything beyond? Anything we might sense or discern?
Let us proceed step by step.
What is death?
What is the body?

death does occur, and it clears space and makes room for new life, and besides perpetuating the processes of reproduction in this way, death also allows such life as becomes non-life to be consumed, which naturally further enhances the opportunities for life, and, together with the various climatic and geological circumstances that pertain, this creates a constant imbalance in life, which cannot stagnate, but only be propelled onwards in the manic slow-dance that is evolution.

theory that life’s inception and evolution is haphazard, occurring without plan, which is a truth questioned by no one but a small number of religious fanatics in the USA, i

Death is what makes evolution possible. And evolution is what made us possible. We are just as unnecessary as death, and however odd it may sound, our presence here is more closely attached to death than to life.
Death created us.

The idea that death created us is made plain too in the biblical myth of the Fall of Man, albeit rather differently so.

at the moment in which we are made aware of death, we become human. It is what sets us apart from the animals, and sets us apart from the moment.

they became aware of who they were, and what kind of position they had in life. This was an awakening, not death. Not many of us would consider knowledge to be an evil. So, did God lie to them? And if so, what kind of a God is that?

t may be found only in the event that we relinquish awareness of the self and all that belongs to it