TY - BOOK AU - Miller,J.Steve AU - Long,Jeffrey TI - Near-death experiences as evidence for the existence of God and heaven: a brief introduction in plain language SN - 9780988304857 AV - BF1045 .N437 2012 PY - 2012/// CY - Acworth, Georgia PB - Wisdom Creek KW - Near-death experiences N1 - Foreword by Jeffrey Long; 1 (pages 155-198) and index; Introduction --; A four year old's near-death experience --; Studies on near-death experiences --; A collage of near-death experiences --; Naturalistic explanations --; Do NDEs provide compelling evidence that God and heaven exist? -- What we can learn from NDEs --; Conclusion --; Appendices; 2; b N2 - Reports of near-death experiences (NDEs) are flooding the media with books, articles and interviews. People describe hovering over their bodies, details of their surgeries, talking with deceased relatives, and reviewing their lives in vivid detail, often while their brains should be incapable of producing rational thought or memories. While the accounts are no doubt interesting, do they provide any solid evidence for the afterlife and the existence of God? Miller argues, in nontechnical and engaging prose, that it does indeed. He began his study doubting that NDEs provided such evidence, but found himself convinced by the weight of the evidence ER -