Well, I hope you don't feel shut out of a conversation because of a statement. There is belief in that. A preposition at the least. Science is predicated on belief. That how tests are made, so one can nullify it. It's how we have dialectics, one persons assertion is challenged by another person's assertion. Your paradigm is the gestalt of all your beliefs, some valid, some not. The philosophy of science has given us some of the best tools ever- but there is more to learning, and science, and life than even the tools we have.

Science require repetition and consistency of data. The Near Death Experience research has that. There have been more peer reviewed, medical journals discussing this subject in the last ten years than in the last forty. Academia is recognizing the data- there is something to it. Maybe it's not what it looks like on the surface, but data is data, and ignoring data is evidence even scientist get up in their beliefs. Like dismissing data by saying fairy tales. I am not mad at you. You're asking for better, refined arguments. Yay you! But I don't think you're looking at the data.

Fairy tales work both ways. You have a world view that there is nothing that goes bump in the night. Very safe world? Well, there may actually be bumps in the night.

I love this. I am glad you didn't feel so shut out that you didn't communicate your thoughts with me. Dialogue is science.