Do atheist's believe in psychic abilities?

[Storm]

Ok.

 

[Caladan]

Do atheist's believe in psychic abilities?

You could say I believe in it for a few hours when im suspending my disbelief as Im reading a good mystery, fantasy, or sci fi novel.

 

[Falvlun]

Psychic abilities needn't be "magical," Sugriva.

All the more reason why we should be able to find evidence of these abilities under scientific conditions, if they indeed existed.

 

[Lilbeth]

I don't know. I would like to....The romantic in me really wants to! I think there is much we don't understand....maybe the so called ghosts are shadows or something from parallel universes.......I do know......I can think of something and someone will say it........same wave lengths and things?....I don't know too much about it all to really know.....but experiences do make me wonder, sometimes.......

 

[St Giordano Bruno]

Some do, but not me

 

[Midnight Pete]

Their strict adherence to empiricism and logic would prevent that, I think.

 

[Midnight Pete]

I don't know. I would like to....The romantic in me really wants to! I think there is much we don't understand....maybe the so called ghosts are shadows or something from parallel universes.......I do know......I can think of something and someone will say it........same wave lengths and things?....I don't know too much about it all to really know.....but experiences do make me wonder, sometimes.......

I am glad that you wonder.

 

[blackout]

The branches of ESPs would reak HAVOK on our (current) world system
if they evolved/developed in the mainstream
to any level of "mundane" proficiency.
(ie success in normal daily life)

I wonder how many people would not be too keen on this.
At all.

It would be much harder to control people,
and also much harder to keep things hidden.

 

[blackout]

You could say I believe in it for a few hours when im suspending my disbelief as Im reading a good mystery, fantasy, or sci fi novel.

This is exactly what I do
when "reading the myStery"
(myStory, maStery)
of my own life.

 

[Jeremy Mason]

*bounce*

 

[blackout]

No reason why not, provided it is empirically demonstrated

Why? Do ALL athiests demand that things be empirically demonstrated?

Is that some sort of athiestic doctrine?

 

[Jeremy Mason]

Why? Do ALL athiests demand that things be empirically demonstrated?

Is that some sort of athiestic doctrine?

Fundamental Atheism?

 

[blackout]

Fundamental Atheism?

Atheistic Fundamentalism.

The Zealots!

 

[AntEmpire]

Yes.

Now to write this to make it so my post isn't too short.

 

[9-10ths_Penguin]

Why? Do ALL athiests demand that things be empirically demonstrated?

Is that some sort of athiestic doctrine?

No, it's skepticism.

Skepticism often goes hand-in-hand with atheism. There's a fair bit of debate in the skeptic community about whether atheism is a necessary result of skepticism, but either way, there's a very high degree of correlation between skepticism and atheism... even though the terms do describe different things.

 

[Jeremy Mason]

Atheistic Fundamentalism.

The Zealots!

God bless Atheistic Fundamentalism. They put the "fun" back in fundamentalism. :beach:

 

[Ubjon]

Atheists don't believe in God. That doesn't prevent them from believing in other things that aren't God related. People are atheists for many reasons and not all get there because of skepticism.

 

[ninerbuff]

Nope!

 

[PhAA]

I don't really believe in anything supernatural.

 

[ninerbuff]

Nope. Like religion it's a scam to me. I don't believe in Fung Shei, Chi, Crystals or any other "energy" crap either.