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If there is no such thing as the supernatural, then how do you explain this?

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If there is no such thing as the supernatural, then how do you explain this?
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RE: If there is no such thing as the supernatural, then how do you explain this?
July 16, 2014 at 6:15 am
(July 16, 2014 at 5:47 am)ignoramus Wrote: I prefer the jebus toast though!

I wonder if he was on his way for his second coming but ran out of fuel?

Or condoms
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RE: If there is no such thing as the supernatural, then how do you explain this?
July 16, 2014 at 6:25 am
(July 15, 2014 at 3:28 pm)Revelation777 Wrote: If there is no such thing as the supernatural, then how do you explain this?
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#33
RE: If there is no such thing as the supernatural, then how do you explain this?
July 16, 2014 at 6:33 am
(July 15, 2014 at 3:28 pm)Revelation777 Wrote: Please read the whole article before you comment. thanks

http://www.science20.com/science_motherh..._or_hoaxes

Sometimes you don't explain things, you accept they are unexplained. It's called maturity.

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RE: If there is no such thing as the supernatural, then how do you explain this?
July 16, 2014 at 8:26 am
If there is no such thing as fairies, how do you explain this? The following photo was deemed genuine by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle:

[Image: Cottingley_Fairies_1.jpg]
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RE: If there is no such thing as the supernatural, then how do you explain this?
July 16, 2014 at 9:11 am
(July 16, 2014 at 8:26 am)FreeTony Wrote: If there is no such thing as fairies, how do you explain this? The following photo was deemed genuine by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle:

[Image: Cottingley_Fairies_1.jpg]

It's clearly false: why isn't the girl looking at the fairies?
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RE: If there is no such thing as the supernatural, then how do you explain this?
July 16, 2014 at 9:15 am (This post was last modified: July 16, 2014 at 9:19 am by Revelation777.)
(July 16, 2014 at 9:11 am)pocaracas Wrote:
(July 16, 2014 at 8:26 am)FreeTony Wrote: If there is no such thing as fairies, how do you explain this? The following photo was deemed genuine by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle:

[Image: Cottingley_Fairies_1.jpg]

It's clearly false: why isn't the girl looking at the fairies?

Maybe she is mesmerized. Wink
(July 15, 2014 at 4:16 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:
(July 15, 2014 at 4:06 pm)Stimbo Wrote: Oh boy - I wouldn't want to be in your shoes when NASA knows you've busted their conspiracy.

Let's see if Rev picks up on the subtle point implied by that particular image.

I'm guessing no.

[Image: BCZUBf2CUAE5v5E.jpg]

How do you photoshop old photos?
(July 16, 2014 at 6:25 am)Tonus Wrote:
(July 15, 2014 at 3:28 pm)Revelation777 Wrote: If there is no such thing as the supernatural, then how do you explain this?
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How do you photoshop photos that came out before the software was even invented?
(July 15, 2014 at 5:38 pm)beentheredonethat Wrote: Only naturalist, materialistic fundamentalists believe there is no such thing as the supernatural. Every other sane being on the planet agrees that it exists.

It's a good thing that atheists are such a small part of the overall population, otherwise we would be in HUGE TROUBLE.

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(July 16, 2014 at 6:33 am)ManMachine Wrote:
(July 15, 2014 at 3:28 pm)Revelation777 Wrote: Please read the whole article before you comment. thanks

http://www.science20.com/science_motherh..._or_hoaxes

Sometimes you don't explain things, you accept they are unexplained. It's called maturity.

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or denial
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#37
RE: If there is no such thing as the supernatural, then how do you explain this?
July 16, 2014 at 9:47 am
(July 16, 2014 at 9:15 am)Revelation777 Wrote: How do you photoshop photos that came out before the software was even invented?
Like this.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."

-Stephen Jay Gould
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RE: If there is no such thing as the supernatural, then how do you explain this?
July 16, 2014 at 9:50 am
(July 16, 2014 at 9:15 am)Revelation777 Wrote:
(July 16, 2014 at 6:33 am)ManMachine Wrote: Sometimes you don't explain things, you accept they are unexplained. It's called maturity.

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or denial

If you don't have any evidence for the cause of something, it's not denial not to leap to a conclusion based on absolutely nothing, and that goes against every shred of evidence ever collected.

Now, I'd really like it if you could answer my question: do you really believe in ghosts? Doesn't that contradict the forty page thread you made telling us the only two choices for our afterlives was heaven or hell?
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RE: If there is no such thing as the supernatural, then how do you explain this?
July 16, 2014 at 11:40 am
(July 16, 2014 at 9:50 am)Esquilax Wrote:
(July 16, 2014 at 9:15 am)Revelation777 Wrote: or denial

If you don't have any evidence for the cause of something, it's not denial not to leap to a conclusion based on absolutely nothing, and that goes against every shred of evidence ever collected.

Now, I'd really like it if you could answer my question: do you really believe in ghosts? Doesn't that contradict the forty page thread you made telling us the only two choices for our afterlives was heaven or hell?

Good question...but I do believe that there are evil forces, demons, that may be able to impersonate a dead person.
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RE: If there is no such thing as the supernatural, then how do you explain this?
July 16, 2014 at 11:48 am
What you believe is irrelevant. What you can demonstrate is all that counts.

As for my aforementioned private opinions, perhaps some other time. Or perhaps never. I already said I don't intend to exoand on them here.
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