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Testing a Hypothesis about the Supernatural
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RE: Testing a Hypothesis about the Supernatural
(April 9, 2018 at 9:10 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: My hypothesis: God will give a cure for erectile dysfunction.

The Action: God gave us Pfizer. 

Thank you God!

A loving god wouldn't have given you Floppy Syndrome in the first place.
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#12
RE: Testing a Hypothesis about the Supernatural
Trump becoming the most powerful man in the world is all absolute conclusive proof I need to KNOW that there is no loving God.

If he's still testing us, then he's just gone over the top now... Enough with your bullshit tests!
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RE: Testing a Hypothesis about the Supernatural
(April 9, 2018 at 11:45 pm)ignoramus Wrote: Trump becoming the most powerful man in the world is all absolute conclusive proof I need to KNOW that there is no loving God.

I just look at it as conclusive proof of the stupidity of many American voters.
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Don't Laugh, stupid Tony Abbott looks like he'll go another round now like Kevin seven eleven did when he became prime minister twice!
Aussies have very poor memories.
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(April 9, 2018 at 10:41 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: Just a quick review of Sheldrake's background makes me immediately question the veracity of his claims.

But it figures Chad would be trumpeting him.  They all stick together.  Like shit.
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(April 9, 2018 at 10:41 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: Just a quick review of Sheldrake's background makes me immediately question the veracity of his claims.

How DARE you doubt Sheldrake??  Deepak Chopra thinks he's right - that should be good enough for ANYone!!

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People have tried to test the magical power of prayer in scientific conditions. It utterly failed. These things always do.
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(April 10, 2018 at 4:35 am)robvalue Wrote: People have tried to test the magical power of prayer in scientific conditions. It utterly failed. These things always do.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studies_on...EP_project
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(April 9, 2018 at 8:23 pm)Bahana Wrote: Can you test a hypothesis about the supernatural? I've heard people argue on both sides of this. I've heard you cannot because you can use a supernatural being as the the explanation for anything if you think it is all powerful. I've also heard certain things like an amputee growing a limb back after someone prays for them in the moment would be good evidence. Where do you forumers stand on this?

A few things wrong with this. 

1. You are making a category error. You cannot test the hypothesis of the supernatural with natural tools. You can observe the supernatural. You can infer the supernatural. You cannot apply a scientific test to the supernatural. 
2. It has nothing to do with "all powerful". Not at all. 
3. There is a nearly limitless number of examples you can dream up that if it happened, you would ascribe a supernatural cause. Why limbs? What gives you the idea that that is what we should expect to see? I can't think of one reason to think that this is what we should expect to see. It's a red herring.
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OFC you can apply a scientific test to the "supernatural", lol.  Asserting that one can observe it sets up just such a test. The very reason that the supernatural fails these tests so often is that the purportedly observable effect simply fails to materialize.
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