RE: Do Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence?
August 4, 2017 at 9:40 am
(This post was last modified: August 4, 2017 at 10:01 am by Neo-Scholastic.)
(August 3, 2017 at 11:27 pm)Tizheruk Wrote: ...you are an asshole a big puckered red asshole. From the stick you have jammed up there . An asshole no one wants to be near as you blast hot shitty smelling air and call it reasoning .
Maybe if you weren't the illigitimate butt-baby of an internationally sodomized cock-leper, you could use the piss-soaked rag you call a brain to croak out two words almost as intelligent as a dead slug's shit.
(BTW if you're going to continue to violate my request for privacy at least have the decency to spell my name right.)
(August 4, 2017 at 9:17 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: If it turns out I cannot explain it, then that means I cannot explain it. I'm unsure why "God's miracle" should be the default here, though.
My general principle is that things are as they appear to be until shown otherwise. That seems to serve me pretty well personally, so all I'm really doing is extending. I've had many uncanny experiences and bizarre improbable encounters, that defy any naturalistic explanation. Every family has some ghost story. I haven't a clue what the alien abduction/UFO phenomena is all about but something is going on that does't fit any model we have for how the world works. Yes, these are anecdotes, but ones that are so widespread, universal, and persistent down through the ages that I cannot simply rule them out as "improbable". They happen all the time. So for me the Bayesian argument doesn't really apply.
On a side note, I just watched an interesting movie that seems relevant - Spectral. In it US special forces in Moldavia battle against invisible entities that seem to behave in almost every way like evil spirits. But this is superlative science fiction (despite the one exception I have with the quantity of weapons produced and the resources to do so) and eventually a very creepy natural explanation is provided. Another more recent and entertaining mockumentary, Trollhunters, does the same with trolls in the Nordic countries. They give natural and amusing explanations for things like turning in stone in sunlight, some having two heads, etc.
