In an article entitled, "The Science of Heaven", a nuerosurgeon named Dr. Eben Alexander debunks other doctor's reasonings of how people have "visited" heaven when they were in near death experiences.
When Dr. Alexander spoke out on his experience, like others have done before him, doctor's said that the unbelieveable trip "was a brain-based delusion cobbled together by my synapses only after they had somehow recovered from the blistering weeklong attack." This pretty much says that the doctor's say that the brain was still functioning while in the coma, and that's what caused the dream.
But, Dr. Alexanders coma was different from others, the part of his brain that controls his neurological function, the cerebal cortex, was completely shut down. Alexander said, "Yet in spite of the complete absence of neural activity in all but the deepest, most primitive portions of my brain, my identity—my sense of self—did not go dark. Instead, I underwent the most staggering experience of my life, my consciousness traveling to another level, or dimension, or world." Coming from a doctor, that believed that these experiences came from synapses, is reamarkable, and the part of his brain that controls these actions was completely shut down, I would love to see the critics explain this one.
Proving the point even further, Dr. Alexander says, "My synapses—the spaces between the neurons of the brain that support the electrochemical activity that makes the brain function—were not simply compromised during my experience. They were stopped." When the activity in your brain is completely stopped, there is no way of having these experiences, but Dr. Alexander did.
This story goes to prove that our God does unimagineable things. He proves to us everyday that he is always there, and this happening to a doctor who believes in science, is even more remarkable.
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