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  1. Koldo

    Challenge: I'm willing to convert if.......

    Sure. Imagine that I "independently investigate over a period of a few years a reasonably good sample set of reincarnation claims and conclude by a discussion of the case studies that none (or statistically insignificant number of them) pass the bar of being genuine cases.", as you put it. What...
  2. Koldo

    Challenge: I'm willing to convert if.......

    You didn't answer my question. How do I avoid someone claiming that I simply didn't come across any legit case but that Tucker did?
  3. Koldo

    Challenge: I'm willing to convert if.......

    If I were to make use of Tucker's methodology, and my research found absolutely no conclusive evidence of reincarnation happening (presuming that I am neither manipulating the research nor making massive mistakes), how would you interpret this? Couldn't anyone just claim that I simply didn't...
  4. Koldo

    Challenge: I'm willing to convert if.......

    Placebo and medication that takes long to kick in also explain what happened.
  5. Koldo

    Challenge: I'm willing to convert if.......

    You mean the one that involved religious zealots?
  6. Koldo

    Shifting more towards atheism

    You start your entire rationale by using a definition for theism that nobody else uses... I have no reason to use your very own peculiar definition when the main alternatives provided work perfectly well.
  7. Koldo

    Shifting more towards atheism

    Can you please cite the source for your definition of atheism? Is it historically relevant? Is there any sizeable group that makes use of it? Or is it just something you personally came up with after reading something?
  8. Koldo

    Challenge: I'm willing to convert if.......

    What does that have to do with what I have just said? Or maybe it is a sentence that doesn't mean anything in particular and more like a random pat in the back to show support?
  9. Koldo

    Challenge: I'm willing to convert if.......

    I will pass the wishful thinking, thanks. Not at all. What does it mean to say that it is good enough for someone to view something some given way? I have no idea.
  10. Koldo

    Challenge: I'm willing to convert if.......

    I am not disputing his experience. It is essential to distinguish between experience and interpretation though. What do you even mean by that?
  11. Koldo

    Challenge: I'm willing to convert if.......

    I didn't say it it is mutually exclusive. It just doesn't constitute proof of divine intervention.
  12. Koldo

    Challenge: I'm willing to convert if.......

    I mean that it is necessary to find new people, and those new cases can not confirm that past researches were legit (rather than fabricated).
  13. Koldo

    Challenge: I'm willing to convert if.......

    Why was it bad form? Did I misrepresent his position? I don't think so. And also impossible to be reproduced, and therefore impossible to determine whether it involves any fabrication. But there are multiple possible explanations within methodological naturalism. The actual problem, if the...
  14. Koldo

    Challenge: I'm willing to convert if.......

    "Michael Levin, director of the Center for Regenerative and Developmental Biology at Tufts University—who wrote in an academic review of Tucker’s first book that it presented a “first-rate piece of research”—said that’s because current scientific research models have no way to prove or debunk...
  15. Koldo

    Bad Chihuahua! (An Inability To Separate God From Religion)

    Where did I mention the laws of this universe on that part of my post? And what laws was I referring to? What does any of this has to do with me saying that something must have always existed? Do I need to quote the post where you have said that a deliberate creative act must have happened...
  16. Koldo

    Bad Chihuahua! (An Inability To Separate God From Religion)

    But I don't presume that something came out of nothing, as far as the origin of existence is concerned. To say that the first thing that ever existed came out of nothing would entail saying that there was this place called 'nothing' that existed and from which something could come from. But...
  17. Koldo

    Bad Chihuahua! (An Inability To Separate God From Religion)

    That presumes that the natural processes were determined by something. If you have no baseline, you are talking about nothing. But you do have a baseline, you are talking about the creator of the universe. That's your baseline. And all I was saying is that not only there are many god concepts...
  18. Koldo

    Challenge: I'm willing to convert if.......

    Don't worry. I have all the pertinent information to make this bet.
  19. Koldo

    Challenge: I'm willing to convert if.......

    I am willing to bet some money it only happened after you have been administered medicine. Ask that pastor to pray so God will heal lots of people with incurable diseases instantly too. You don't even need to bother telling me the result. It will show up on the news if it works.
  20. Koldo

    Bad Chihuahua! (An Inability To Separate God From Religion)

    No, we are talking about the origin of the universe, which might have been caused by natural processes. No, it doesn't. The proposition that god exists is part of a theological framework that comes along with it's attributes. It is not a separated first step. Without defining the term 'God'...
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