{"id":3600,"date":"2018-01-23T15:36:06","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T23:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/?p=3600"},"modified":"2018-01-23T15:36:06","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T23:36:06","slug":"the-least-verifiable-nde-claim-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/?p=3600","title":{"rendered":"The Least Verifiable NDE Claim Yet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Question from Ned:<\/strong><br \/>\nDoes this psychic woman prove Jesus?<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/iands.org\/ndes\/nde-stories\/iands-nde-accounts\/494-face-to-face-with-jesus-the-christ.html?highlight=WyJqZXN1cyIsImplc3VzJyIsIidqZXN1cyIsIidqZXN1cyciLCJqZXN1cydzIl0=\">https:\/\/iands.org\/ndes\/nde-stories\/iands-nde-accounts\/494-face-to-face-with-jesus-the-christ.html?highlight=WyJqZXN1cyIsImplc3VzJyIsIidqZXN1cyIsIidqZXN1cyciLCJqZXN1cydzIl0=<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Answer by <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/smartlx\">SmartLX<\/a>:<\/strong><br \/>\nNo.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nIf anything in this story were true, it would be amazing, but there&#8217;s no evidence that it is, so that doesn&#8217;t begin to approach the criteria of proof that Jesus is alive and curing people.  There are no <em>names<\/em> in the story, not the author, not the doctor, and not the &#8220;psychic&#8221; woman, so there&#8217;s absolutely no way to find out whether any of it happened.  Like another recent account the hospital is named &#8211; the Veteran Affairs Medical Center &#8211; but firstly this may or may not be the one in Portland, Oregon, and secondly hospitals are not forthcoming to the general public on the details of their ex-patients.  Just because Forrest Gump went to the White House, which is a real building, does not mean Forrest Gump was a real person.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nAs it stands, there&#8217;s just nothing here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question from Ned: Does this psychic woman prove Jesus? https:\/\/iands.org\/ndes\/nde-stories\/iands-nde-accounts\/494-face-to-face-with-jesus-the-christ.html?highlight=WyJqZXN1cyIsImplc3VzJyIsIidqZXN1cyIsIidqZXN1cyciLCJqZXN1cydzIl0= Answer by SmartLX: No. If anything in this story were true, it would be amazing, but there&#8217;s no evidence that it is, so that doesn&#8217;t begin to approach the criteria of proof that Jesus is alive and curing people. There are no names in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/?p=3600\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Least Verifiable NDE Claim Yet&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[76,758,308],"class_list":["post-3600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-text","tag-evidence-for-jesus","tag-iands","tag-nde"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pB6tr-W4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3600"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3602,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3600\/revisions\/3602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}