(March 15, 2015 at 11:02 am)ChadWooters Wrote: That's because the so-called free-thinkers are anything but.
Free thought simply means not stapling one's mind onto one intractable position; allowing oneself the freedom to explore a range of possibilities and eliminating the implausible ones.
(March 15, 2015 at 11:02 am)ChadWooters Wrote: It is the same situation for NDE''s. The best evidence by the most serious researchers provides compelling proof, but they won't have any of it. There are more than a dozen natural "explanations" for NDEs and they are all inconsistent, speculative, and do not account for all the phenomena.
All that means is that the phenomena being discussed is inconsistent itself, with contradictory anecdotal evidence. Present something tangible that can be investigated and stand well back.
(March 15, 2015 at 11:02 am)ChadWooters Wrote: When presented with evidence for something that doesn't fit their small minded box of how the world should work they will accept anything, however speculative, to deny that maybe, just maybe, the world is a little more rational than suggested by materialism. They're indigenous hypocrites at worse and willfully ignorant at best.
Anyone remember that bit in the OJ Simpson trial when the defence said that Martians did it and everyone said "oh, that explains it - case dismissed"? Because that's how evidence works, right? You merely present it and we all have to just accept it uncritically?
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.'
