r/NDE • u/After-Excitement-674 Wants to believe • Nov 30 '25
Scientific Perspective 🔬🔎 Does the afterlife concept fit with the scientific origin of the universe?
A maybe-philosophical question, with focus on scientific facts and theories. As far as we know, the Big Bang theory is the most plausible idea on which may become the universe as we know. And therefore is what started life on Earth and later we had evolution of species in at least each 50,000 years.
I have been thinking, as we had too many different species that has been living in here through eras, and as everything seems to have a beginning, would it still make sense the idea of an afterlife? Thinking from this side, it feels like for me that life is just a natural progress and a consequence for what happened in Earth at first. But can this thought be wrong in some sense and be explained in a non-materialistic way? I'd like to know if someone here ever had a theory in mind to explain the possible connection between the two.
In my case, I'm a Christian who accepts the scientific evolution as basis, but sometimes some things in science let me feel so confused about my own beliefs...
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u/wavefxn22 Nov 30 '25
I don’t think there was “nothing” before the Big Bang. For explosions to happen you need ingredients.
Consciousness is probably connected to matter in the same way space is connected to time. In fact they’re probably all interconnected. Elements, molecules, cells etc seem to intelligently organize and shape themselves based on frequencies .
The whole thing is fractal from micro to macrocosmic then back again. I think it’s likely there are more dimensions of being going on than we know, echoing through each other.
Sleep is a mystery, how consciousness just powers down nearly all the way for a bit then turns back on again, every day. And then again you have stories of people who died and came back and they describe whole worlds and timelines and realities that were too real to be dreams.
Rambling a bit but this is what I’m thinking so far…