For the most part, it is not too difficult to find evidence of Ecclesiastes 3:11:
"He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man's heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end."
As far as I understand this passage, folks have some innate sense of not just their own mortality, but that there just might be something/someone greater or worse than this physical world: a sense of deity and of heaven/hell. Yet we also see from this passage, that such knowledge is somewhat limited. Assumptions about heaven or hell are often just that: assumptions based upon a self concocted view of reality rather than biblically informed world-view of Creation, Fall, Redemption, and Consummation.
In reading a Rolling Stone magazine article on current American Idol judge Steven Tyler, I came across yet another indication of "eternity" in "man's heart." I guess it really shouldn't have surprised me:
"....I'm going to get up to heaven, and the gate's going to open, and God's going to go, 'You know what, I threw Beelzebub out while were listening to one of your songs......I think I've been so lucky in my life that I'll probably die in my sleep, thank you, Lord Jesus."
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