"Evidence," Dinesh, this word, I do not think it means what you think it means...

The conversation keeps drifting from what is known empirically about brain function, to what someone who believes in an afterlife might expect to experience. That there is a commonality of experience with people who have experienced NDE is not a shock--it would be markedly more shocking if we had people actually come back, say, recollecting St. Peter, or burning coals. But what we generally get, anecdotally, is the sensation of a narrowing white light, and sense of being cut off...all the things one might explain by functions of the brain cutting out from lack of oxygen.

He admits atheists describe these NDE experiences as being like psychedelic drugs--me, I'm a drinker. And I've come thisclose to NDE. (Not a proud accomplishment of mine, surely.) But I will vouch for the potentiality of various states of consciousness that are not death, and are not supernatural. But boy, howdy, do they feel like you are gonna die.

Evidence is not what you "think" it is or "believe" it is--it is what you know it is because you can verify that it is, and I'm sorry, I think he doesn't know any more than he started with.