September, 2011, Posts of the Month

Zen Deist writes:Personally, I do not see it being possible to test any real supernatural aspects that may be in the {exist} set, because in order to properly validate (ie tested, calibrated and known(1)) to produce proper results) such a test you would need bonafide positive and negative results, which would make the whole exercise unnecessary.This means you can only logically test for the effects of supernatural presence\essence on natural systems that can be tested. Problems here are (a) the strong possibility of false negative results, and (b) results that are confused with and ascribed to natural causes.Thus we have to work from inference from indirect evidence, rather than direct observation and deduction, and thus we need to practice extreme care not to make premature conclusions, pro or con.

Panda writes:I would like to nominate GDR as poster of the month.
Polite, concise, thoughtful, determined - GDR is consistently all of these things.
Ok - sure - I frequently disagree with his opinions.
But that is irrelevant to the quality of his(?) posts.GDR...nice work. *thumbs up*

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