the one million dollar paranormal challenge was an offer by the james randi educational foundation (jref) to pay out one million u.s. dollars to anyone who can demonstrate a supernatural or paranormal ability under agreed-upon scientific testing criteria.. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/one_million_dollar_paranormal_challenge.
aaaaand discuss!.
BTW: I removed the nonsense post from your OP.
You mean the link within the post. Great thanks. Any chance of substituting the second link in my later post (from the sceptics site) and removing the quotes from the title? Or just removing the quotes from the subject title so it doesn't look like I'm quoting the defunct link?
I'll check out the Netflix documentary. Thanks for pointing it out.
the one million dollar paranormal challenge was an offer by the james randi educational foundation (jref) to pay out one million u.s. dollars to anyone who can demonstrate a supernatural or paranormal ability under agreed-upon scientific testing criteria.. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/one_million_dollar_paranormal_challenge.
aaaaand discuss!.
@Village Idiot
Thanks for your last post. I agree re: Occam's Razor that the simplest answer is usually the right one, ie. it was a parlour trick.
I just like to "what if" myself. It's refreshing being able to do so after not be allowed to do so in the Jehovah's Witness world.
the one million dollar paranormal challenge was an offer by the james randi educational foundation (jref) to pay out one million u.s. dollars to anyone who can demonstrate a supernatural or paranormal ability under agreed-upon scientific testing criteria.. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/one_million_dollar_paranormal_challenge.
aaaaand discuss!.
Here,
The above is a link from a sceptics site on the topic. I have now presented links from both sides of the argument (see my last post)
the one million dollar paranormal challenge was an offer by the james randi educational foundation (jref) to pay out one million u.s. dollars to anyone who can demonstrate a supernatural or paranormal ability under agreed-upon scientific testing criteria.. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/one_million_dollar_paranormal_challenge.
aaaaand discuss!.
Again, for the record, I'm agnostic. (Check out my other thread)
I'm a big ol' fence sitter. Don't assume any of my posts have an agenda. Don't assume anything about me.
I like to play the what if card on all sides of the argument.
the one million dollar paranormal challenge was an offer by the james randi educational foundation (jref) to pay out one million u.s. dollars to anyone who can demonstrate a supernatural or paranormal ability under agreed-upon scientific testing criteria.. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/one_million_dollar_paranormal_challenge.
aaaaand discuss!.
Randi is awesome.
The site hosting the article you linked to is pro-supernatural and anti-Randi.
Yes I realize that. Chances of finding an objective site that is neither pro or against Randi is nill.
But my whole point of posting was to show that the prize was not claimed which could can be considered a victory for the "paranormal is bunk" side.
I always try to see things from both sides.
If I would have posted from a pro Randi site someone else would have said that the site hosting the article is pro Randi and anti supernatural.
If there is a truly objective site on the topic I'd love to learn about it.
the one million dollar paranormal challenge was an offer by the james randi educational foundation (jref) to pay out one million u.s. dollars to anyone who can demonstrate a supernatural or paranormal ability under agreed-upon scientific testing criteria.. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/one_million_dollar_paranormal_challenge.
aaaaand discuss!.
Appreciating Occam's Razor but also playing the what if card,
What if what the psychic said was true? Packing peanuts moving do not conclusively prove it was the psychic using their breath. Packing peanuts are little bundles of static electricity.
the one million dollar paranormal challenge was an offer by the james randi educational foundation (jref) to pay out one million u.s. dollars to anyone who can demonstrate a supernatural or paranormal ability under agreed-upon scientific testing criteria.. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/one_million_dollar_paranormal_challenge.
aaaaand discuss!.
The One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge was an offer by the James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF) to pay out one million U.S. dollars to anyone who can demonstrate a supernatural or paranormal ability under agreed-upon scientific testing criteria.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Million_Dollar_Paranormal_Challenge
Aaaaand DISCUSS!
meet a really smart fellow named anselm 1043--1109 a.d.. .
he was elected abbot in lombardy in 1078 a.d.. .
that than which nothing greater can be thought exists in the understanding.
Edited my previous post when I realized this thread had been necro'd by the previous poster (old thread being resurrected; a NO-NO in most discussion forums)
TLDR means "Too long, didn't read" as was the OP of this resurrected thread. Having to filter through walls of text to get to the main argument is usually not well received by many forum readers.
meet a really smart fellow named anselm 1043--1109 a.d.. .
he was elected abbot in lombardy in 1078 a.d.. .
that than which nothing greater can be thought exists in the understanding.
EDIT
Good gravy. Way to necro an old thread.
it is not uncommon for theists to accuse rational people on this forum of "scientism".. in my opinion it is nothing but a cheap shot from those who know they lack evidence for their beliefs.
if something like "scientism" actually does exist then i have never encountered it.. here is part of an exchange from another thread - i have brought it here as it was off-topic.... scientism = claim of scientific method being universal and the only valid method of knowledge.
followers of scientism always demand scientific evidence to anything.
John_Mann repIing to Cofty "I don't think you would accept physical evidence or testimonial evidence for instance."
Testimonial evidence is not reliable.
