Does Near-Death Experience (NDE) Evidence Prove an Afterlife?
Consider the Evidence, and Determine YOUR Answer!
This web form considers near-death experience (NDE) evidence that suggests an afterlife, and calculates how strongly you believe this evidence proves the existence of an afterlife. Afterlife means conscious existence after permanent earthly bodily death.
Instructions: In each table below, select the percent probability that the evidence from the single concept alone, without consideration of any other evidence, proves the existence of an afterlife. Please consider all evidence both for and against the single concept.
Example: If you believe the evidence from a single concept proves the existence of an afterlife with a 90% certainty, select 90%. If you believe the evidence from a single concept proves the existence of an afterlife with a 10% certainty, select 10%. If you believe the evidence from a single concept offers no proof of the afterlife whatsoever, select 0%.
The top twelve NDE concepts that are generally considered to be most evidential are presented below.
After you select a percentage, you may change your response by clicking a different percentage. Only one percentage per table may be selected.
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NDE Evidence and the Afterlife Calculator Explained
There are multiple lines of NDE evidence suggesting the existence of an afterlife. Many people find it difficult to assess the totality of these multiple lines of evidence in determining the strength of the totality of overall NDE evidence in proving the existence of an afterlife.
An example of this is as follows. Suppose there were only two independent lines of NDE evidence suggesting an afterlife. Further, assume that each one of these lines of evidence individually had a 50% probability that it proved the existence of an afterlife. Many people would consider that the two lines of NDE evidence, each with a 50% probability of proving the afterlife, would mean that the combination of the two lines of evidence suggests a 50% probability of the NDE evidence proving an afterlife. However, this is not true. This may be illustrated as follows. The two hypothetical lines of evidence may be called Evidence1 and Evidence2. The four possible outcomes are:
| | Afterlife Proven | Afterlife Not Proven |
Evidence1 | Yes | No |
| Evidence2 | Yes | No |
For both lines of NDE evidence, another way of listing the four possible combinations are:
| Evidence1, Afterlife Proven: | Yes | AND | Evidence2, Afterlife Proven: | Yes |
| Evidence1, Afterlife Proven: | Yes | AND | Evidence2, Afterlife Proven: | No |
| Evidence1, Afterlife Proven: | No | AND | Evidence2, Afterlife Proven: | Yes |
| Evidence1, Afterlife Proven: | No | AND | Evidence2, Afterlife Proven: | No |
Of the above four possibilities, the afterlife would be considered proven with the first three combinations. This is true because there is a Yes response to at least one of the two lines of evidence. Only the last combination, with a No response to both lines of evidence would suggest the afterlife is not proven. Thus, if there are two lines of NDE evidence, each with a 50% probability of proving an afterlife, the combination of the two lines of evidence gives a three out of four, or 75% probability that an afterlife is proven.
The mathematical formula that determines the percentage probability that the afterlife is considered proven by N independent lines of NDE evidence, is:
100 x {(1-N1)*(1-N2)*(1-N3)...*(NN)} %
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