supernatural

So much woo depends on supernatural events happening. People accept them as evidence or explanations all too easily without thinking about the ramifications of something happening that doesn't conform to natural laws. But what would the ramifications be? Let's take the familiar example of...

Francis Bacon, sometimes called the father of rationalism, said that a little science can lead men away from God but more science will lead him back. Some great science was shown this Tuesday on Great Britain’s BBC. If you go the BBCs web site you can still watch the whole programme, just...

The problem with the supernatural is that it can NEVER in any way be proven. Consequently, no attempt to do so is any more than a waste of time in 100 percent of all cases, no exceptions. Here is the point: Be it religion or any other beliefs, what test could any scientist design to PROVE...

"We don't want to promote a belief in the supernatural and in superstition, which we do not know about," say the believers in Allah. http://www.stuff.co.nz/4025297a4560.html

Hello, I have frequently read claims that TM Sidhi purports to teach people how to fly, become invisible, and walk through walls. Is this information officially published somewhere? Has Maharishi been quoted saying these things. I found a page that collects a lot of quotes from him. While some...

Obviously a supernatural power has composed this prayer by bolding the appropriate tag words of the forum! bad - book - bush - challenge - day - dead - death - evolution - first - forum - free - god - going - good- happy - help - iraq - jesus - jref - life - man - most - movie - news - now -...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/5017910.stm It seems a lot of British people believe they are psychic. Comments?

I am inclined to say yes, becasue it strikes me as flight from reality and a refusal to deal with problems rationally and the giving up of looking for answers while embarking on resource wasting circular searches for non eixstant effects that will be never conclusivly proved.

Instead of arguing with you directly, let me ask you to define divine intervention and then specify how it can be tackled by science. Now we need some sort of scientific epistemology as our basis for discussion, so let me offer Stimpy's version: You may certainly argue with this epistemological...

Here it is. This one is using Star Wars' 'the force' as a leverage to get into people's good books: ---Quote--- The Field tells the story of a group of frontier scientists who discovered that the Zero Point Field - an ocean of subatomic vibrations in the space between things - connects...

This is specifically to address the superstition of bad luck attributed to a place where people have died. This is not akin to the western idea of graveyards being solemn places, because people don't die there; they go there to be buried. I'm talking about the whole murder-house theme; where...

Hi, I was hanging out on the virtual mental asylum that is Paltalk the other day and a theist actual came up with a resonable argument for evidence of a super-natural being. Of course he called this super-natural being 'God', to which I played the omipotency paradox card and killed the...

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Hypothetically, lets say someone writes a biography about the life of Yahweh - lets say some of the details included lots of unusual events (bending spoons with my mind, communicating with spirits, healing lepers with my magic touch, etc.). Most skeptics are going to be disinclined to believe...

i was talking to someone about the shamanistic worldview rationally and about how hallucinogen abuse is just a simple anatomical reaction to an inanimate substance of atoms. He much to my surprise claimed that there is tonnes of scientific proof for the supernatural worldview, such as...

CNN - Supernatural Spa's I find it hard to comment. After reading the article it seems that in some cases they are just dispencing sound advise along with a bunch of "hippie-dippie-do stuff". Take away the tarrot card and this might makes sense. I suppose some people just like to have the...

I don't believe in a god, but I've been pondering this question. We aren't our arms, legs, eyes, etc, because we can lose those and still be considered "ourselves" and "alive." I hesitate to say that we're our brain, because a brain can exist and not be alive. Likewise, measurable brain...

Hello, everyone - I've been lurking for awhile, learning the culture and rules of this forum, and finally decided to jump into the fray. I've been a skeptic since I was about 12 (some 30 years ago), when my father gave me a copy of Fads and Fallacies - a book that literally changed my life...

I will detect a person able to win the JREF challenge if the person passes prelims and you present him to me I will validate whether or not he is genuine and this will mean I get the 1$ million not the other guy if the other guy actually succeeds

Dear friends. Why could a supernatural act not stand on its own ? Why does it need to be repeated in order to be determined (by mr. ignoramus)as a real or true supernatural/paranormal phenomenon or quality ? I believe that setting people up for such rules is going against one of the most...

...when are you going to use the term "supernatural"? To you, wouldn't there simply be some natural things that many people doubt the existence of? If the natural world is thought to have been created by God, then why wouldn't other things thought to have been created by God also be classified...

I came across this information about the Xhosa and how a great many of the Xhosa came to believe S.A. Study The words of the spirits, talking to 16-year-old Nongqawuse, as recorded by W.W. Qqoba in his narrative of the Cattle killing, based on oral sources. Dead will Arise: Nongqawuse and...