(May 8, 2011 at 12:46 pm)Dreamer Wrote: Well, for one thing, I don't come to conclusions about the nature of reality based solely upon personal experience. Rather, if the scientific evidence is sketchy or nonexistent, then I default to personal experience. Science is the underlying basis--what can be proven. But for what is inbetween--if it is neither proven nor unproven or has conflicting evidence/interpretations--then I consider what my own experience has told me.
This sounds like the very definition of the 'god of the gaps' argument.
However i shall reserve my final judgement until i've heard more of your 'personal experiences'.
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