The article says Dr. Moreland is a "professor at Talbot School of Theology at Biola University". His ideas are comp,etely condistent with the Christian apologetics he promotes, but without scientific evidence which is completely missing, he may as well be selling snake oil. Several posters here have shown that the evidence refutes Dr. Moreland's claims. Still, Christians are likely to site his claims because it fits with what they want to believe even after they have been presented with true evidence to the contrary.

He can be as biased as he likes, so long as his hypothesis can berigidly defended and supported by provable evidence, whilst disproving any opposing evidence or arguments. All he has done is provided an opinion, which is not fact.

Depends on the field. Hard sciences, Engineering, and medical field has reasonably tough peer reviewed research.

This guy got a PhD in philosophy...not sure how tough the peer review is for journals that have a low impact factors.

Well he teaches at Biola univ, a school that literally has no hard science or engineering or medical research accreditation apart from nursing education. And who knows what they teach in those programs.

He is teaching in the right place.

@MakeItGood I have studied executive management at post-graduate level, hardly a hard science by any means, I can safely say that I would have failed if I presented evidence in the same vein as he did.
I wonder if I could gain a professorship, if I approached Biola?It would seem that it would be a very low bar to pass!

I did post Dr. Moreland's educaton credentials. He has his undergrad degree in Chemistry (his claim to being a scientist?) But his post grad degrees are in philosophy and theology. He is listed as being an apologist consistent with his claims in the article. I would think his post grad work more or less counters/invalidates his science undergrad degree.

@OwlInASack oh, like Fox, but on paper...sad about the trees......

I imagine that the Daily Mail would be off the scale, just behind The Sun. Out of interest, do you know which broadsheet comes up as the most credible?

@Magister The Independent is not too bad, I don’t know about The Times anymore as I’ve not looked for it for about 20 years or so.

@Geoffrey51 I've found the Independent to be blatantly left-wing, at times, as the Times can be right-wing, although The Times does seem to be better researched and less biased in it's articles, other than its commentary columns.
I used to read the Guardian for mny years, but it seems to have been overtaken by extreme anti-British and anti-Royalist commentators, such as Yasmin Alibhai-Brown. Her rantings about white privilege are ironic, considering her privileged background
I live in a city where the white working class are disadvantaged by every measure, and commentary such as hers only service to fuel racial tensions. Fighting against inequality should be inclusive, not divise.

Yeah, yours is probably the most appropriate response.

Separate from the brain. Dr. Moreland's claim is that the brain doesn't store memories; but he would be mistaken. See VictoriaNotes comment and link below.

@RussRAB actually, memories are stored in the gall bladder, and mine was removed, explaining my forgetfulness Completely! Yeah, that's the ticket!

Having died twice, I totally agree with her reporting.....

It is likely that it came from a (fake) religious school.

I would be wrong. Here are his credentials from Wikipedia:

"Moreland specializes in metaphysics, philosophy of mind, chemistry, and Christian Philosophy[2]having had his work published in journals such as Metaphilosophy and the American Philosophical Quarterly. He has also had his work published by presses such as Intervarsity Press, NavPress, Zondervan, Oxford University Press, Routledge, Rutgers University Press, and Prometheus.[3]

"Moreland earned a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry with honors from the University of Missouri and a Master of Arts in Philosophy with highest honors from the University of California, Riverside. He received his Th.M. in Theology from Dallas Theological Seminary.[4] In 1985, he received a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Southern California. His dissertation was "Universals and the Qualities of Things: A defense of Realism.""

This doesn't change the fact that he has no facts behind his claims.

I agree. The wording seems to imply that it is more than one guy's pontificating and maximizing the use of the term "scientist".

An EVANGELICAL school........

At some point we all find out, and then it's too late!

@Sofabeast Yes, but no one lives to tell about it. Unless you give any credibility to NDEs, which I do not.

@Sofabeast Actually, I don't think we find out anything. We just cease to exist. There is no reason to think that the dead know that they are dead.

@Joanne Absolutely and I totally agree. When you're dead you are dead. End of story.

@jlynn37 - When we die - really die, not near death - I won't say say we absolutely cease to exist, although that makes the most sense to me. But who knows? It is a subject like God that we have no perspective on - no point of reference.

@RussRAB I guess no one is 100% certain of anything.

All I can tell you is that once the body no longer lives then bacteria, etc, etc, take over and the corporeal body starts to rot and dissolve away, eventually leaving little more than the skeleton after many, many years, the rest just becomes nutrients in the surrounding soil after it seeps through the planks/materials that make up the casket/coffin, etc, UNLESS, of course, you are cremated and have you ashes scattered, instead of having them stored in an Urn and placed on some Mantle-piece, then the nutrients quickly mix in with soil and the plants utilize them to grow, flower and produce seeds, etc., but still you WILL know NOTHING about it anyway.

@Triphid Pretty well sums up what we actually know about what happens after one dies, and as you said, "you WILL know NOTHING about it anyway."

@jlynn37 Of course IF you are eaten by some nasty, big carnivorous animal then chances are that you WILL come back BUT as mere animal droppings at best.
Often, when I hear Ministers, etc, at Funerals say the words, " In the sure and certain hope...…." I think quietly to myself, " Utterly ridiculous those words are since there really IS no certainty or surety in HOPE, because HOPE is merely one who is living actually thinking that circumstance/s WILL change for the better but neither sure or certain that they will."