[doogiehoussi]

A few random thoughts:

If rebirth does not exist, then nothing is reborn. If something is reborn, then it must be something that existed previously, existed in the previous life. In this case, rebirth is precisely the same as reincarnation.

Consider an analogy. There is a field of yellow billiard balls standing on flexible stems. The wind blows and the field of billiard balls is disturbed. Each billiard ball strikes the one next to it, passing on the direction and force of its own motion. A complex pattern of motion begins (call this "life"). This motion continues to the edge of the field. Beyond is a field of blue billiard balls. There is no gap between the two fields. The yellow billiard balls at the edge of the yellow field strike the blue billiard balls at the edge of the blue field, thus passing the direction and force of their own motion on to the field of blue billiard balls, so that the pattern of motion ("life") begun in the yellow field is passed onto the blue field. The motion of the blue field is entirely determined by the motion of the yellow field, but is separate and distinct from the yellow field.