For the most part, science has this to say: Yeah, right. Which means that for millions of people, religion will turn out to have been a bum steer as regards the hereafter.

And, of course, only one of these can be true. Religion says that your soul goes to heaven or possibly to a seven-tiered garden, or that your soul is reincarnated into a new body, or that you lie around in your coffin clothes until the Second Coming.

It doesn’t deliver a single, coherent, scientifically sensible or provable scenario. Because I know what religion says, and it perplexes me. And so I decided to turn to it, to see what it had to say on the topic of life after death. “Flawed as it is, science remains the most solid god I’ve got. Her biting wit is omnipresent from the start. Following on the heels of her fantastic 2004 book Stiff: The Curious Lives Of Human Cadavers, Roach delves into exactly what the title says: the afterlife through scientific explanations, theories, and conjecture, debating religion with science - complete with funny and thorough anecdotes.

And Mary Roach’s aptly titled Spook: Science Tackles The Afterlife is the perfect choice to snuggle with while snacking on Halloween candy. It’s also a good time to curl up (no pun intended) under the covers with a good book. The leaves start to turn color and all the little ghosts, goblins, and ghouls will be out trick-or-treating soon. Halloween costumes in Sioux Falls, SD - ghost, animal and more, plus dinner mystery skits. Parapsychology and science.Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife - book review Search for related items by subject Subject:įuture life. the dead guy in the overcoat : in which the law finds for a ghost, and the author calls in an expert witness - Six feet over : a computer stands by on an operating room ceiling, awaiting near-death experiencers. You again : a visit to the reincarnation nation - The little man inside the sperm, or possibly the big toe : hunting the soul with microscopes and scalpels - How to weigh a soul : what happens when a man (or a mouse, or a leech) dies on a scale - The Vienna sausage affair : and other dubious highlights of the ongoing effort to see the soul - Hard to swallow : the giddy, revolting heyday of ectoplasm - The large claims of the medium : reaching out to the dead in a University of Arizona lab - Soul in a dunce cap : the author enrolls in medium school - Can you hear me now? : telecommunicating with the dead - Inside the haunt box : can electromagnetic fields make you hallucinate? - Listening to Casper : a psychoacoustics expert sets up camp in England's haunted spots - Chaffin v.

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