God Arises
Argument for the Life Hereafter
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argued, for instance, that according to
neurology awareness of the space occupied by
our bodies (and of spatial relationships in
general) is possible only when the brain is
functioning normally, and that after death,
when the brain disintegrates, no such
awareness will be possible.
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But there are certain other assumptions which
suggest that disintegration of material particles in a
body does not bring life to an end. And these
assumptions carry considerable weight. We should
be prepared to recognise that life has a distinct and
independent identity which survives in spite of the
change in material particles. It is known that the
human body is composed of certain specific
elements called cells. These are the fundamental
units of living things, and are composed of
microscopic particles with a highly complicated
structure. A man is made up of some million
million cells. It is as if cells were the tiny bricks
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of
the human construction. But whereas, real bricks
remain the same as they were at the time of
building, human cells undergo a constant process of
transformation. This is known as our metabolism.
