On this episode of Skeptico, a show about finding truth in science.

There actually were a lot of accounts, overtly saying this particular person died, went to the other world, and came back,

and that's how we know what the afterlife was like. I found, you know, 40, 50, 60 of them from different parts of the world.

So that's not in dispute.

The idea that for all these thousands of years in pretty much every cultural region of the planet,

people have just been making things up and let's instead look at the world through our own

sort of mechanistic, materialistic, scientific viewpoint

and say that, no, it's all culture and it's all in the brain.

To me, that's a pretty limited way of looking at the world.

And that, to me, seems completely illogical and unreasonable.

And it's faith rather than science.

It's people sticking to their predetermined

philosophical paradigms rather than looking at the actual evidence and extrapolating from it.

And a show about spotting scientists who are full of baloney.

You don't have any answer in the Bible what to do when humans are no longer useful to the economy.

You need completely new ideologies, completely new religions, and they are likely to emerge

from Silicon Valley.

Everything that the old religions promised, happiness and justice, and even eternal life, but here on earth

with the help of technology and not after death with the help of some supernatural being.

What are humans for?

As far as we know for nothing, I mean, there is no great cosmic drama, some great cosmic

plan that we have a role to play in it.

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