(June 18, 2011 at 2:03 am)tackattack Wrote: You consider your position the null position, but I consider my experiences rational and valid and consider them the justified position.
Are you claiming personal experience of psychic abilities?
(June 18, 2011 at 2:03 am)tackattack Wrote: As far as your assumptions about the credibility. What is your opinion of the particular study I used in this particular case and it's source? Is it's reputation strong enough for you?
I gave my opinion of the paper a few posts back. As for the journal, it's a social pyschology journal so the subject matter is not even relevant. It seems the only reason it was published here is that the author was comparing the outcome of an ESP experiment with personality tests (which PAID seem to be particularly taken with). Another thing which rings a few alarm bells is that the paper has 4 citations, all of which are by the author.
Quote:That's my problem with a lot of athesitic arguments (I'm sure they have plenty for me) that it's not enough evidence, then any evidence will do, oh but then the evidence isn't objective enough, unbiased enough... oh it is.. then it hasn't been peer reviewed enough or ran through enough times. For the claim of an entity existing outside the universe I understand that it requires extraordinary evidence, but I can never find the line.
This has nothing to do with atheism, or the claim of an entity outside the universe (if that even means anything).
Galileo was a man of science oppressed by the irrational and superstitious. Today, he is used by the irrational and superstitious who claim they are being oppressed by science - Mark Crislip