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Huntard
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Message 4 of 60 (567314)
06-30-2010 3:08 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by Practical Prodigy
06-30-2010 2:53 PM


Welcome to EvC!

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Huntard
Member (Idle past 2295 days)
Posts: 2870
From: Limburg, The Netherlands
Joined: 09-02-2008


Message 24 of 60 (567544)
07-01-2010 2:42 PM
Reply to: Message 23 by Practical Prodigy
07-01-2010 2:31 PM


Re: About Me
Hello again Practical Prodigy,
Practical Prodigy writes:
Explain the evolution of the following features by the accumulation and selection of small mutations; (Lists a bunch of stuff).
Yeah, that's not how we do things around here. If you'd like to discuss the evidence for the evolution of that stuff, pick one (yes, just one) subject and propose a new thread. Nobody is going to tackle all of that at once.
Im not sure what your trying to imply. I stated that science was based on methodological naturalism and divorces anything that cant be repeatedly observed or explained through naturalism from its scope. This would leave out various phenomena that have been thoroughly proven to occur.
Like?

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Huntard
Member (Idle past 2295 days)
Posts: 2870
From: Limburg, The Netherlands
Joined: 09-02-2008


Message 43 of 60 (567632)
07-02-2010 1:45 AM
Reply to: Message 33 by Practical Prodigy
07-01-2010 7:24 PM


Re: About Me
Practical Prodigy writes:
Well when asked a question I'll post why I have said position, was not attempting to have to delve this deep into my beliefs in an introductory thread, LOL.
Fair enough. When you want to discuss any of those things, I guess you know what to do.
Unexplained Phenomena:
The Placebo Effect
Isn't really unexplained.
The Sixth Sense
Doesn't exist.
Near Death Experience
Is explained.
UFO's/USO's - Unidentified Flying/Submerged Objects
Explained/not what people say they are.
Dj Vu (Memory illusion)
Explained.
The Big Bang (Origin of the Universe)
Has multiple explanations for it. We don't know the right one yet.
Singularity
I'm sorry, you need to explain what you mean by this in more detail.
Mammatus Clouds
Explained.
Non-aqueous Rain
Hypotheses (explanations) exist. There have not been much studies into this.
St Elmo’s Fire
Explained.
Ghosts
Don't exist.
Spontaneous Human Combustion
Doesn't exist.
Unexplained Disappearances
You've got to be kidding me. Nobody can be kidnapped without someone noticing. I'd like to draw your attention to Natascha Kampusch, who was abducted and kept in a basement for 8 years. Her disappearance wasn't explained until she ultimately escaped.
Bermuda Triangle
Doesn't exist.
The Hum
Explained.
Psychic Phenomena (esp, remote viewing, telepathy, clairvoyance or telekinesis)
Don't exist.
Naga Fireballs
Explained.
Blue Jets and Red Sprites
Don't know what these are.
Earthquake Lights
Numerous hypotheses exist. We don't know the correct one yet.
Relationship between brain and body
Explained.
Capacity (psychic and spiritual)
Doesn't exist.
Electronic Voice Phenomenon
Imagination.
The Sirius Mystery (as well as other ancient cosmology knowledge not visible from Earth)
Wishful thinking.
Tunguska Explosion
Meteorite.
Charles E. Peck (Chatsworth crash)
Don't know him, but I assume he survived the crash. This is somehow miraculous to you?
Would you like me to go on?
If they're all just as bad as these, then no, please stop. May I suggest you get your info from other places as "Discovery Channel"?

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Huntard
Member (Idle past 2295 days)
Posts: 2870
From: Limburg, The Netherlands
Joined: 09-02-2008


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Message 45 of 60 (567635)
07-02-2010 2:48 AM
Reply to: Message 44 by Practical Prodigy
07-02-2010 2:00 AM


Re: About Me
Practical Prodigy writes:
Well considering I have researched them please post explaination for the ones you claim are explainable just saying is explained is weak position. The last one maybe you should Google him and find out the story...
Like I said, if you want to discuss one, pick one and start a new topic. I'll see what I can do once the topic is promoted.
The ones you claim dont exist I could provide evidence to the contrary...
Not really, no. You could offer anecdotes, wishful thinking and misinterpretation, I'm sure. That's not evidence however.
No, I'm not trying to say you're an idiot. You nkow who used to believe in some if not all of the things you mentioned? Me. Wanna know why I grew out of them? Evidence, or rather the lack thereof.
Now, like I said, if you care to pick one, I'll see what I can do as to giving the explanation. Bear in mind though that I am not a scientist, and have not read every scintific report there is on these subjects. But then again, neither have you (I suspect) and yet you feel comfortable saying there aren't any explanations for them. Think about that one.

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Huntard
Member (Idle past 2295 days)
Posts: 2870
From: Limburg, The Netherlands
Joined: 09-02-2008


Message 48 of 60 (567674)
07-02-2010 7:05 AM
Reply to: Message 47 by Larni
07-02-2010 5:54 AM


Re: About Me
Larni writes:
Being in a control group in a drug trial makes people beleive someone is doing something to help them and this activates the Hawthorn effct. No mistery. No problem for ToE.
As consequnce I see no reason to see this as a problem for ToE.
In fact, you will have to establish that any on that list are problems for evolution as I can't see one that poses a problem.
To take another example: The Hum (noise from modern machines that some people can hear and some can't). How is this a problem for ToE?
You might as well ask why those screamer devices that kids can hear but adults can't is a problem for ToE.
To be fair to PP, he didn't say these were ptoblems for ToE. He said:
PP writes:
Im not sure what your trying to imply. I stated that science was based on methodological naturalism and divorces anything that cant be repeatedly observed or explained through naturalism from its scope. This would leave out various phenomena that have been thoroughly proven to occur.

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