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    Thread: Improbability Principle
Post: RE: Improbability Principle

Arouet Wrote: (2018-03-15, 06:36 PM) -- Heh, I guess if you could actually accurately detect that it might work. Not sure it’s that easy! -- He wrote notes as he watched. But I wonder if he just conv...
Posted by Paul C. Anagnostopoulos in Skeptic vs. Proponent Discussions , 2018-03-16, 10:31 PM
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    Thread: Darwin Unhinged: The Bugs in Evolution
Post: RE: Darwin Unhinged: The Bugs in Evolution

stephenw Wrote: (2017-11-21, 01:29 PM) -- Natural design in living things predates human design by 3 billion years.   -- Hmmm... "natural design" ay? Is that like "designed" by the pressure to thri...
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    Thread: A materialist and an NDE proponent go to a stage magic show together
Post: RE: A materialist and an NDE proponent go to a sta...

fls Wrote: (2017-11-11, 12:00 PM) -- What about finding a way to accurately represent the materialist position? -- The whole point of this analogy is that I think that person B's assumption about h...
Posted by Hjortron in Philosophical Discussions , 2017-11-16, 11:59 AM
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    Thread: Materialism as a religion
Post: RE: Materialism as a religion

nbtruthman Wrote: (2017-10-29, 04:35 PM) -- A really good summary of the materialist belief system that Carroll actually thinks can be a great belief system to live by. This is by psychologist and pa...
Posted by malf in Philosophical Discussions , 2017-11-02, 12:44 AM
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    Thread: Interview with Dr. Henry Bauer - Part 1
Post: RE: Interview with Dr. Henry Bauer - Part 1

Dante Wrote: (2017-10-29, 03:55 AM) -- And this seems to be an equally absurd response. To suggest that Chris and Laird have not engaged you in a sincere manner is comical at best, and something subs...
Posted by fls in Other Topics , 2017-10-29, 10:15 AM
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    Thread: Interview with Dr. Henry Bauer - Part 1
Post: RE: Interview with Dr. Henry Bauer - Part 1

I’d be interested in any direct quotes in which Linda was wrong, misleading or dishonest.
Posted by malf in Other Topics , 2017-10-28, 05:30 AM
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    Thread: Interview with Dr. Henry Bauer - Part 1
Post: RE: Interview with Dr. Henry Bauer - Part 1

Laird Wrote: (2017-10-19, 12:24 AM) -- But is it really true that there are very few studies in parapsychology which have both conditions? I can think of categories of parapsychological experiments t...
Posted by fls in Other Topics , 2017-10-19, 03:51 AM
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    Thread: Interview with Dr. Henry Bauer - Part 1
Post: RE: Interview with Dr. Henry Bauer - Part 1

Laird Wrote: (2017-10-18, 11:50 AM) -- OK, and so would you then accept that the alternative framing I posed would be in your terms a "confirming" test, and that therefore this example could be descr...
Posted by fls in Other Topics , 2017-10-18, 12:26 PM
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    Thread: "Why I am no longer a skeptic"
Post: RE: "Why I am no longer a skeptic"

jkmac Wrote: (2017-10-09, 05:43 PM) -- So you are not providing evidence of someone being lucid during CPR but saying it's possible... :huh:  -- I'm sorry, but where on earth is this coming from? Wh...
Posted by fls in Skeptic vs. Proponent Discussions , 2017-10-09, 06:45 PM
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    Thread: Statistical Significance
Post: RE: Statistical Significance

Laird Wrote: (2017-10-09, 04:28 PM) -- Thanks, Chris. That claim did seem mistaken to me. I appreciate you laying out all of that groundwork to explain why it is mistaken. Intuitively, even without t...
Posted by fls in Skeptic vs. Proponent Discussions , 2017-10-09, 05:20 PM
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    Thread: "Why I am no longer a skeptic"
Post: RE: "Why I am no longer a skeptic"

jkmac Wrote: (2017-10-09, 11:31 AM) -- Thanks for the work on this Tim. I know Linda can simply wear you down and eventually it's hard to differentiate between fact and fiction in her posts. And even...
Posted by fls in Skeptic vs. Proponent Discussions , 2017-10-09, 12:58 PM
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    Thread: Statistical Significance
Post: RE: Statistical Significance

jkmac Wrote: (2017-10-06, 02:07 PM) -- We've discussed that already. And like it or not,,, this seems to be a fact of life with these phenomenon. They are not consistent, and people need to deal with...
Posted by fls in Skeptic vs. Proponent Discussions , 2017-10-06, 04:13 PM
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