And the 'higher intelligence at work' Sting speaks of at the end of his video is his brain on the effect of a powerful hallucinogen. Nothing more nothing less.

Obama has become a typical phony politician.

Basically to teach your child Atheism all you need to do is tell the truth. Childhood can be a wonderful time even if you don't lie to your children.

In reply to this comment by steama:
Deepak talk total crap. He mixes his breed of mythology psycho-babble to the point it is sickening. I have never heard a man make more unsubstantiated claims than Chopra.

Sorry, I assumed that people would get the sarcasm using the bug and windshield analogy. As for Gupta, of course death has a process if there is 'time' but often the luxury of time would be gone if we were squished by a large boulder let's say! Science will continue to uncover the mysteries of the human mind. It's amazing.

In reply to this comment by Trancecoach:
actually, check out "The Serpent and the Rainbow." In it, Wade Davis describes that the pronouncement of death is actually a much trickier and more ambiguous process than is commonly understood. People have recovered after being "clinically dead" (i.e., no brain activity, no heart rate, etc.) for several minutes, or even longer. If a person goes into cardiac arrest during a coma, the declaration of the time of death is, in this sense, simply the time at which the doctors have decided to stop working on revival.

>> ^steama:

Deepak make statements regarding the brain, mind, consciousness, that he cannot back-up with any evidence at all. He obviously likes to hear himself talk.
When the brain dies the mind is gone — period.
Also, Gupta stating that death is a process and doesn't happen all at once. Well ask that bug that hit your windshield how long the death process took.

Deepak talk total crap. He mixes his breed of mythology psycho-babble to the point it is sickening. I have never heard a man make more unsubstantiated claims than Chopra.

Sorry, I assumed that people would get the sarcasm using the bug and windshield analogy. As for Gupta, of course death has a process if there is 'time' but often the luxury of time would be gone if we were squished by a large boulder let's say! Science will continue to uncover the mysteries of the human mind. It's amazing.

In reply to this comment by Trancecoach:
actually, check out "The Serpent and the Rainbow." In it, Wade Davis describes that the pronouncement of death is actually a much trickier and more ambiguous process than is commonly understood. People have recovered after being "clinically dead" (i.e., no brain activity, no heart rate, etc.) for several minutes, or even longer. If a person goes into cardiac arrest during a coma, the declaration of the time of death is, in this sense, simply the time at which the doctors have decided to stop working on revival.

>> ^steama:

Deepak make statements regarding the brain, mind, consciousness, that he cannot back-up with any evidence at all. He obviously likes to hear himself talk.
When the brain dies the mind is gone — period.
Also, Gupta stating that death is a process and doesn't happen all at once. Well ask that bug that hit your windshield how long the death process took.

His ideas are crap.

In reply to this comment by GenjiKilpatrick:
See. The only problem with Deepak's philosophies is that he uses juuust enough bullshit mumbo jumbo not to be taken seriously.

Other than that, he's got some nice ideas.

Deepak make statements regarding the brain, mind, consciousness, that he cannot back-up with any evidence at all. He obviously likes to hear himself talk.

When the brain dies the mind is gone — period.

Also, Gupta stating that death is a process and doesn't happen all at once. Well ask that bug that hit your windshield how long the death process took.

That was truly awesome!

The shocking thing is how comfortable with slavery these religious people are. They must be Bible readers.

How does Perry think all these people got here. It is because people like sex and at some point abstinence breaks down for nearly everyone. Lets face it sex feels very good where abstinence is like an painful charlie horse in the jewels. Religious thoughts are out the window when it gets heated. A lot of humans on this planet are evidence of this.

The only way to truly prevent unwanted pregnancy is to give young people all the knowledge and tools we can regarding sex.

Mr. Bachmann has a very strong nell voice tone. Hmmm?

Silly 'soft' Atheism is what he is selling. Most Atheists will acknowledge maybe a extremely remote possibility of god.

What this conversation is really about is the ability to be honest about what we cannot know.