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MYS203: Many people have wondered or hoped that beloved animals that die continue to live on in heaven, but a common opinion is that they don’t. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli look at that claim and ask if there is any evidence that animals do, in fact, survive death.

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Links for this episode:

• Edward Anderson’s book Evidence of Animal Afterlife
• Ed Okonowicz’s book Haunted Maryland
• Russell & Barnett’s Ghost Dogs of the South
• Russell & Barnett’s Ghost Cats of the South
• C. S. Lewis’s book The Problem of Pain
• Peter Kreeft’s book Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Heaven
• TheBayNet.com story on the Blue Dog
• Blue tick hound
• Mastiff
• The Byrd’s 1965 cover of Turn! Turn! Turn!
• Aquinas’s Summa Theologiae on the Soul
• Joyce Salisbury’s article Do Animals Go to Heaven?
• Robert Sapolsky’s talk on Human Uniqueness
• Theory of Mind
• Theory of Mind in Animals
• Edward Anderson’s website
• Edward Anderson’s post on my search results
• Aquinas on the powers of different types of souls
• Ants Farming Aphids

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Mysterious Headlines

• If You Love Animals, It Is Your Moral Duty to Eat Them
• Article claiming recent brain scan reveals people’s lives flash before their eyes as they are dying
• Article debunking the former article as a bunch of junk

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