(September 17, 2013 at 6:39 pm)Brian37 Wrote: Reincarnation is bullshit woo, PERIOD.
The religions that are based around the concept could well be as they aren't based on evidence they're based on faith. Studies involving remembered past lives on young children are based on evidence and they have a vastly better than chance hit rate. Statistically the evidence for genuine memories of real locations and people dating back to a time period before they were born is significant. We have very small details being mentioned here so it's something to take seriously.
Quote:I could "potentially" fart a Lamborghini out of my ass. Because Lamborghinis are real and my ass is real, the "potential" means it could happen?
There would have to be a reason why you could that because we know that doesn't normally happen. We don't know that something like reincarnation doesn't normally happen it well might. It's research well worth funding as they could be many cases like this one out there that aren't being recorded or taken seriously.
Quote:The ability to string letters and words and sentences together is horribly mundane. Evidence does not start out with woo or tradition, nor does that which is universal need depend on the bias of morons who simply make the naked assertion "it could happen"
But this happens to people who don't even believe in reincarnation as it isn't part of their tradition as in this case of this example.
Quote:Monkeys could fly out of my ass if that is the case.
They could but there would have to be a reason for it if they did because we know for a fact that doesn't normally happen.