"And I also believe I have a right to ignore science when it conflicts with my personal happiness."
Okay. But next time you catch a dose, and your personal convictions conflict with your pain, thus preventing you from receiving proper medical (based on science, which you choose to ignore) treatment for your personal penis...!
'Remember: you can never say the word 'Happiness' without saying Penis'
-Nick Abbot (LBC Radio presenter)
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"I accept heliocentrism and evolution because the price to pay is not unbearable"
Want to live in that river in Egypt? Fine. You do that. But what you say here is so telling:
"Scientists have the freedom to give naturalistic interpretations to Near-Death Experiences, and I have the right to ignore those interpretations completely."
"but I will never accept a scientific finding that points to the absence of life after death - that's really too much to bear."
That's what you fundies are so scared of: Nothing. As in complete neurological oblivion. The cessation of what makes you you, as you experience brain-death by hypoxia. So you & your ilk came up with this comforting security blankie of the 'soul', and that such will 'go to Heaven' after you die. Now ask yourself this question, emotional:
Prove the so-called 'soul' exists.
But you can't. Thus proof of your delusion called 'faith'. Denial. It's not just a river in Egypt.
PROTIP: Like we Atheists, you'll end up cold & rotting in a box. And that's what you & your ilk find not just too much to bear, but unimaginably terrifying.
I acknowledge, and accept that one day I will cease to exist - neurologically and physiologically. Thus I realise that the life I have is the only one I'll ever get. Ergo:
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QED. But you keep hold of that security blankie you call your 'faith' in a death-grip, emotional, and keep living in that river in Egypt.
Because one day, the Reality called Death is going to bite you on the arse.