"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence."

There isn't even evidence for this in any original version of the Bible or its parents, as far as I know. The concept of an immortal soul and heaven/hell were adapted into Christian culture from other sources, such as the Greeks and the Scandinavians for which Hell ("Hel") gets its namesake. And even in that case, it isn't some "valley of the damned" doomed to eternal suffering. It's just where dead people go that simply wasn't alongside the gods.

**Scientific evidence disproves an existance of the afterlife let alone a Heaven V Hell situation.** The existence of the afterlife would require physics and biology beyond our current understandable model. There isn’t evidence for the afterlife yet there is a lot of scientific fact that points towards the impossibility of heaven and hell existing. **Steven Hawkins said "I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers.”** Even if there was – hypothetically - to be an afterlife, to me it is so doubtable that it would be a classic Heaven V Hell type of set up. In a society that has, for the most part, moved beyond traditional, religious ideas of sin and repentance, the idea of heaven and hell seem outdated and rigid (even when talking about an idea so abstract and beyond our reality).

There is no evidence for "Heaven" and "Hell", other than anecdotal experiences, which seem highly subjective. However just because there is no strong evidence for a thing, it doesn;t mean we can rule out it's existence. The matter is even more complex when we realise that when religions talk about "Heaven" and "Hell", they sometimes are talking about spiritual realms. That is: realms that we get to once we no longer have any physical body but would still be real to us. So these realms are likely to be "spiritual" not "physical". If a thing is spiritual rather than physical, can it be called "real"? Science has not even proven, or disproven, the existence of a "spirit" (as far as I know) let alone a "spiritual realm". So here we are left with questions, rather than an answer. Another complexity arises when we realise the idea of "Hell" and "Heaven", typically come from ancient times. It is concieveable that these defintions of "Heaven" and "Hell" are discribing some kind of mental experience some people have when dying. To the ancients anecdotal evidence would have been good evidence, lacking any other. Could the idea of a heaven and hell come from common mental experiences people have when dying? People who have died and come back, (in the present era) sometimes discribe an experience of: "going down a tunnel of light" where they arrive at something like: "Heaven" Also I have heard at least one account of someone who came back, talking about going somewhere (that to him) was like a classical "Hell". Could the ancients have interviewed those rare people, who "came back" and built there beliefs about the afterlife experience on them? Well I ask you, if our brains are structured to make the death experience have an experience of a "Heaven" or "Hell" does that mean that they actually exist? Exist as in a typical experience that the brain naturally produces? I dont know the answer. Right now the is no compelling evidence for the existence of hell or heaven but no compelling evidence to rule them out, either. We have questions concerning this, but no answers we can rely on.