RE: The Evidence Required Is?
March 3, 2012 at 9:18 pm
(This post was last modified: March 3, 2012 at 10:44 pm by Cyberman.)
Not at all; I am not limiting the definition of science merely to test-tubes and microscopes, nor am I equating it with our current level of knowledge. Remember science is a process of investigation; such things as mind-body interaction most certainly can be investigated, though I may personally lack the knowledge to explain how. Your placing something beyond the reach of scientific investigation is a double-edged sword, by so doing you are also removing any effect it can have on the Universe since such effects clearly do fall into the reach of scientific investigation. I may add that something so defined as to be unknowable and uninvestigatable (is that even a word?) would be beyond your knowledge as well. Sure you may imagine such things, but I am not compelled to accept your imaginings as evidence.
If you will allow me to illustrate: there is an undetectable (i.e. invisible, intangible, inaudible, infragrant etc) elephant stampeding towards you. What is your simplest course of action? Beyond asking me how I know this, anyway.
If you will allow me to illustrate: there is an undetectable (i.e. invisible, intangible, inaudible, infragrant etc) elephant stampeding towards you. What is your simplest course of action? Beyond asking me how I know this, anyway.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
