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<blockquote data-quote="Zombie_Babies" data-source="post: 6275054" data-attributes="member: 6750039"><p>So you're saying that the sun rises cuz Apollo pulls it across the sky, that we get sick because of an imbalance of body humours and that lighting is actually Zeus making his presence known to us? Maybe that the Earth is actually flat? I mean, all that predates materialist thinking, too, does it not?</p><p></p><p>The common understanding is that science is, in fact, filling in the gaps. People hadn't a clue what caused fire initially so they assigned some higher power to it. Over time, the actual event was better understood. That's ... it's how all this works.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Umm ... in the case of out of body experiences the evidence <em>is </em>purely anecdotal. 'He said it happened to him' isn't evidence at all. I'm sorry, it's just not. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>There's a lot of merit to what you suggest. However, there's also a fairly large problem: Most people are not taught to analyze, well, anything - let alone scientific data. There's a reason there are large portions of entire fields devoted strictly to research and why a lot of that research happens at educational institutions. Quite simply, analysis isn't an innate talent. We need to be taught how to do it and how to do it right. I'm not suggesting that anyone who isn't trained shouldn't explore this, of course, but if we were to see more of this we'd see a hell of a lot more crackpot theories and junk science come out of it. And that doesn't help anyone or anything.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Zombie_Babies, post: 6275054, member: 6750039"] So you're saying that the sun rises cuz Apollo pulls it across the sky, that we get sick because of an imbalance of body humours and that lighting is actually Zeus making his presence known to us? Maybe that the Earth is actually flat? I mean, all that predates materialist thinking, too, does it not? The common understanding is that science is, in fact, filling in the gaps. People hadn't a clue what caused fire initially so they assigned some higher power to it. Over time, the actual event was better understood. That's ... it's how all this works. Umm ... in the case of out of body experiences the evidence [I]is [/I]purely anecdotal. 'He said it happened to him' isn't evidence at all. I'm sorry, it's just not. There's a lot of merit to what you suggest. However, there's also a fairly large problem: Most people are not taught to analyze, well, anything - let alone scientific data. There's a reason there are large portions of entire fields devoted strictly to research and why a lot of that research happens at educational institutions. Quite simply, analysis isn't an innate talent. We need to be taught how to do it and how to do it right. I'm not suggesting that anyone who isn't trained shouldn't explore this, of course, but if we were to see more of this we'd see a hell of a lot more crackpot theories and junk science come out of it. And that doesn't help anyone or anything. [/QUOTE]
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