How can reincarnation be true when there are more people alive today than have ever lived before?
I remember this paper from the Journal of Scientific Exploration (2000) by David Bishai (John Hopkins) which seems to answer this.
Can population growth rule out reincarnation? A model of circular migration.
http://www.scientificexploration.org/journal/jse_14_3_bishai.pdf
This seems to be the key point (page 419 of the paper)... to sustain the claim that human population growth offers proof that the reincarnation hypothesis is false requires the skeptic to assume that some sort of physical laws governing the afterlife require that the mean duration of stay in the afterlife has been constant throughout human history.
So variable durations of stay in the afterlife solves it? (plus a bit more)
This paper is also praised by Prof. Stephen Braude in his book Immortal Remains if you Google the terms Bishai reincarnation
(with more commentaries)
I remember this paper from the Journal of Scientific Exploration (2000) by David Bishai (John Hopkins) which seems to answer this.
Can population growth rule out reincarnation? A model of circular migration.
http://www.scientificexploration.org/journal/jse_14_3_bishai.pdf
This seems to be the key point (page 419 of the paper)... to sustain the claim that human population growth offers proof that the reincarnation hypothesis is false requires the skeptic to assume that some sort of physical laws governing the afterlife require that the mean duration of stay in the afterlife has been constant throughout human history.
So variable durations of stay in the afterlife solves it? (plus a bit more)
This paper is also praised by Prof. Stephen Braude in his book Immortal Remains if you Google the terms Bishai reincarnation
(with more commentaries)