Victor Zammit

Victor Zammit

Victor James Zammit is an Australian writer and researcher into the paranormal. Formerly a lawyer of the Supreme Court of New South Wales and of the High Court of Australia, he is the author of "A Lawyer Presents The Case For The Afterlife". [ [http://www.victorzammit.com/book/4thedition/index.html "A Lawyer Presents The Case For The Afterlife"] ] His website presents an analysis of at least eleven different areas of proposed evidence for the afterlife, including mediumship, near-death experiences and reincarnation. It also contains a number of articles which purport to rebut arguments by certain skeptics against the existence of an afterlife. The website also has links to current research and conferences on the topic.

$1 million challenge

Victor organized sponsors to offer one million dollars to anyone who could rebut the existing empirical evidence for the afterlife. Conditions of the challenge were changed on 6th November 2006. [ [http://www.victorzammit.com/skeptics/challenge.html Challenge] "Victor Zammit.com"]

Zammit's challenge does not require a demonstration of a clearly defined paranormal ability in an unambiguous testing situation mutually agreed to, but rather convincing a committee of "people expert in afterlife evidence" to agree that their claimed evidence has been rebutted "beyond any doubt". Critics (e.g. James Randi, Richard Dawkins, Australian Skeptics "et al") have opined that this challenge is absurd as it requires the antagonist(s) to prove a negative. In sum, Zammit is accused of holding that his position must be true because it has not been proven false. [ [http://www.randi.org/jr/112301.html James Randi about Zammit's challenge] ] [ [http://www.skeptics.com.au/journal/2001/4_challenge.pdf Australian Skeptics about Zammit's challenge] ] Zammit argues that he is the antagonists to prove that there is no afterlife, but to disprove the existing evidence for it.

Christianity and Judaism

His website contains three open letters, to Pope Ratzinger [ [http://www.victorzammit.com/articles/pope.html Letter to Pope Ratzinger] "Victor Zammit.com"] , Rev Dr Billy Graham [ [http://www.victorzammit.com/articles/billygraham.html Letter to billy Graham] "Victor Zammit.com"] and to Rabbi Boteach [ [http://www.victorzammit.com/articles/rabbiboteach.html Letter to Rabbi Boteach] "Victor Zammit.com"]

Articles

Victor has published on his webpage a number of articles "rebutting" statements made by scientists including:
* Prof R Dawkins [http://www.victorzammit.com/articles/dawkins.html]
* Prof. Carl Sagan [http://www.victorzammit.com/articles/sagan.html]
* Critics of Sir William Crookes [http://www.victorzammit.com/articles/william.html]
* Critics of Electronic Voice Phenomena [http://www.victorzammit.com/articles/evpattack.html]
* Professors who tested the skills of a Russian psychic [http://www.victorzammit.com/articles/natashacansue.html]
* Commentary on the claim that Near Death Experiences are simply physiological reactions of the dying brain. [http://www.victorzammit.com/articles/lawyerrebutspsychologynde.html]
* Commentary on "Why debunkers have lost credibility." [http://www.victorzammit.com/articles/natasha.html]

ee also

*Afterlife

References

External links

* [http://www.victorzammit.com Official site]


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