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Thread #121446   Message #2659865
Posted By: Amos
18-Jun-09 - 07:46 PM
Thread Name: BS: Science and Religion
Subject: RE: BS: Science and Religion
BillD:

You say "when we can" without researching what exists in the literature. It is easy to assert "no evidence" when what is meant is "I have seen no evidence, and I ain't lookin, either!"

I have posted various sources in the many discussions we have had about these border territories and what has and has not been observed there in.

One of the problems with the excessive skeptic approach is this line of reasoning: any report of evidence must be flawless, because if I can find some way in which it COULD be flawed, that proves that it WAS so!" This of course is nonsense, just as much as accepting purely anecdotal superstition is.    In matters of this sort, the actual probabilities have to be assessed even-handedly.

The girl with the sneaker is a case in point. It did not occur under clinical conditions. But the report was confirmed by independent observation. Go figger.

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