Hello Rezende,

You asked, "To what do you attribute the vast difference of opinions about the idea of reincarnation among the peoples of Latin and English-speaking, Dr. Craig?"

We see through a glass darkly. We have to discover whom we are. We, as individuals and a species, are learning. That's part of the maturing of our selves and our society. It's only been 150 or so years since we understood the notion of electric fields. We didn't finally have proof of plate tectonics showing the continents drift about on the Earth's crust until the 1960's. We didn't know the universe is expanding until Hubble found that out in 1929. We still thought the Earth was the center of the universe until the 17th century. We're just learning about life.

We're at the stage now in understanding spirituality and the other planes of life that we were when Copernicus and then Galileo asserted that the Earth is not the center of the universe. It's entirely new. There are still superstitions and misunderstandings about reincarnation as there were about the universe in Galileo's time. So we're just learning. We make discoveries every day about our eternal selves and reincarnation. Over the next decades and centuries, we'll come to learn more, just as it took from Galileo's time in the 17th century until 1929 when Hubble learned the universe is expanding for us to really understand the cosmology. And today we're still making discoveries about the big bang, black holes, and the rest of the cosmos.

So we're just in our infancy in understanding reincarnation and the other spiritual planes. We have some superstition and ignorance, and some real insights. But we are learning.

Love and peace, Craig