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Neil #conspiracy skeptiko-forum.com

Parapsychology is a field that tests falsifiable hypotheses using empirical methods and has built on a body of research over the last 80 years, with a decent level of replicability and making predictions, testing, and confirming them. They have far higher use of double-blind methodology than other areas of science, have better replicability than other sciences, and the big journals have better standards such as publishing replications and null results.

Why would this not be considered science? Which part is pseudoscience?

Bertha Huse #fundie skeptiko-forum.com

ID really isn't about finding God. This in itself is a common mis-characterization For the most part ID'rs simply put forth there is some kind of "direction", "intelligence", "self-organization" taking place in biology - which so-far "undirected" "random" "non-intelligent" organization has not explained. This especially was demonstrated regarding the recent human genome project which had materialists like yourself and Michael Shermer assuring the world it would cement Darwinian biology forevermore. In fact, the genome project confirmed what ID'rs had predicted, not what the Darwinists had predicted.

What is a fine trick is playing the definition games you like to play here. For starters, science is about putting forth hypothesis that most readily explains the scientific data collected and analyzed. And if there is anything we know most intimately as human beings, it is our consciousness and our intelligence. In fact our science depends upon our intelligence. And what ID'rs are observing naturally in biological structures is the signature of intelligence i.e. self-organization, irreducible complexity, non-random direction. This is the scientific data your Skeptical prejudices that you share with Dawkins and Shermer deny. This is the scientific data that would have led you to predict different results from the human genome project. But you continue to ignore that data. You continue to deny it. Even though it is readily accessible for anyone willing to look at it.

What we also discovered in quantum physics 80 years ago, is there is a non-material aspect to the reality we experience. In fact, on a very fundamental level ie. the very fabric of reality is made up of particles that are not real until we actually observe those particles. We have also discovered in psychology and in parapsychology non-local aspects of human consciousness. Again, this is scientific data that your Skeptical prejudices simply ignore or insist cannot exist.

Boo Boo #conspiracy skeptiko-forum.com

What if we humans were created, not by God/intelligent design or evolution, but some kind of alien species that existed long ago ( and maybe they still exist, but they're hiding from us or something like that )? Maybe we were created by the 'aliens', like robots... 'Meat robots'.
'Programmed' to have emotions and 'survive and reproduce'. Some of us humans are 'programmed' with an ability to see spirits/ghosts and communicate with things in an 'afterlife'.

Some of us are probably 'programmed' to have NDEs regardless of being an atheist/materialist, and some aren't.
And maybe the 'aliens' implanted something in our brains to experience a 'past life' or a 'false memory', like a brain chip.
Just a weird thought floating around in my head.