The Near Death Experience: A Critical Examination
The Issue The near-death experience (hereafter referred to as NDE) is a controversial subject. While there are a minority of medical professionals and others in the sciences who have dedicated significant time to research the topic, many in these respective fields are often divided on the specific nature, character and legitimacy of the experience. Much of the division is centered on how best to interpret the evidence, with the philosophical Materialists, who comprise a significant majority in the medical and scientific communities, proposing purely physical explanations for the perceived experience. The question for those in apologetics ministry is how we can adequately and honestly weight the evidence of the experience and then determine whether it possesses any value to the apologetics arsenal. If it is too subjective and the evidence is tenuous, we should jettison the experience. However, if it can be demonstrated to have significant evidence to support it, then we shou...
