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Thread: The Global Consciousness Project
Post: RE: The Global Consciousness Project
Chris Wrote: (2018-10-11, 05:39 PM)
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I'm afraid this has finally convinced me that it's not appropriate to try to discuss the science of parapsychology in an online forum like this one. It's a wast...
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Thread: The Good Place
Post: RE: The Good Place
Steve001 Wrote: (2018-09-28, 01:33 PM)
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By consensus.
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Oh no it's not! :LOL:
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Thread: The Good Place
Post: RE: The Good Place
fls Wrote: (2018-09-26, 10:04 PM)
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Is that your way of saying that you aren’t going to listen to what we say we do or do not subscribe to?
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Cute, but incorrect. No, it was my rather plain and ...
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Thread: The Good Place
Post: RE: The Good Place
Steve001 Wrote: (2018-09-27, 12:58 AM)
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After reading all you've written to explain why not I'm no closer to understanding why not. Are you saying a soul can't fall under the category of materialis...
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Thread: Christian belief and the value of the study of the shroud of Turin
Post: RE: Christian belief and the value of the study of...
Mediochre has expressed a lot of what seems to me to be animus in this thread, the origins of which maybe I have a little sense or can guess at, but I didn't want to get involved in the thread given t...
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Thread: Darwin Unhinged: The Bugs in Evolution
Post: RE: Darwin Unhinged: The Bugs in Evolution
Dante Wrote: (2018-08-01, 01:01 PM)
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It is easy to see the issue here -- the term creationist ordinarily carries with it the belief that the Earth is 2000 years old, and (usually) the Christian God...
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Thread: Darwin Unhinged: The Bugs in Evolution
Post: RE: Darwin Unhinged: The Bugs in Evolution
Steve001 Wrote: (2018-07-30, 10:02 PM)
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I wonder if you will acknowledge Ewert's intention is to discredit evolutionary theory?
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I wonder if you will acknowledge that this is no different to sc...
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Thread: Darwin Unhinged: The Bugs in Evolution
Post: RE: Darwin Unhinged: The Bugs in Evolution
Steve001 Wrote: (2018-07-21, 02:20 PM)
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You don't generally associate with people whom hold radically opposing views to your own, Ewert is no exception.
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Does that mean you are secretly a psi p...
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Thread: Christian belief and the value of the study of the shroud of Turin
Post: RE: Scientific study of the Shroud of Turin
Mediochre Wrote: (2018-07-18, 10:14 PM)
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Those who think they do are just lazy.
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Baloney. Again, the arrogance of supposed absolute knowledge here is a fatal flaw. Unless, of course, you are ...
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Thread: Christian belief and the value of the study of the shroud of Turin
Post: RE: Scientific study of the Shroud of Turin
Mediochre Wrote: (2018-07-18, 07:42 PM)
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I don't care that they would want to tell people their "truth" I care why they would want to do so in the first place what type of person does one have to b...
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Thread: Darwin Unhinged: The Bugs in Evolution
Post: RE: Darwin Unhinged: The Bugs in Evolution
Steve001 Wrote: (2018-06-16, 02:58 PM)
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I've not denigrated his character, intelligence, knowledge.
What's there to discuss? If we questioned your conclusions, beliefs, assumptions etcetera we ...
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Thread: Why Physicalism Is Wrong
Post: RE: Why Physicalism Is Wrong
Steve001 Wrote: (2018-06-08, 03:57 PM)
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The question I'm actually posing is how do you know what he wrote is actually true? And secondarily how would one go about proving it?
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I was under the i...
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Thread: Why Physicalism Is Wrong
Post: RE: Why Physicalism Is Wrong
Steve001 Wrote: (2018-06-08, 01:40 PM)
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Ok Mister Dante, since you agree with him experimentally prove his position. I'd like to see such positive evidence.
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Try proving your position experimen...
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Thread: Pssst has been banned
Post: RE: Pssst has been banned
I must confess, I had no idea this Pssst guy was "MU" whatever that means, believe it or not. I've made a mistake in engaging with him even in a very limited way. I just thought he was totally cracker...
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Thread: When continental drift was considered pseudoscience
Post: When continental drift was considered pseudoscienc...
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/when-continental-drift-was-considered-pseudoscience-90353214/ (https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/when-continental-drift-was-considered-pseudos...
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Thread: Laypeople trump experts
Post: RE: Laypeople trump experts
fls Wrote: (2017-10-29, 05:29 PM)
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I have seen the idea brought up numerous times, especially in relation to alt-science views, that individuals are reasonably capable of picking and choosing which...
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Thread: New book, "Heavens on Earth", by Michael Shermer
Post: RE: New book, "Heavens on Earth", by Michael Sherm...
fls Wrote: (2018-05-06, 10:46 AM)
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Also a subject we've gone over many times before. The point of evidence is to spread an idea beyond true believers, to scientists who are skeptical of the idea. I...
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Thread: New book, "Heavens on Earth", by Michael Shermer
Post: RE: New book, "Heavens on Earth", by Michael Sherm...
fls Wrote: (2018-05-06, 02:44 AM)
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I think there is general recognition that there is widespread skepticism amongst the scientific community, rather than acceptance.
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Thread: Problems with the Multiverse
Post: RE: Problems with the Multiverse
Brian Wrote: (2018-05-05, 09:51 PM)
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It's good to be back and re-energized having rested and re-examined things.
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... and hopefully come to the inevitable conclusion that we are biological ro...
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Thread: New book, "Heavens on Earth", by Michael Shermer
Post: RE: New book, "Heavens on Earth", by Michael Sherm...
fls Wrote: (2018-05-05, 12:19 PM)
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Strictly speaking, there is no symmetry with respect to "evidence" here - the evidence falls strongly on the skeptical side.
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I'm sure it won't surprise anyon...
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