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When you go watch a show performed by a skilled magician, do you know instantly it's a trick? Of course not. Tricks are supposed to TRICK people, if it wasn't able to everyone would just point at it and say 'that's a trick'. Read: Sounds EXACTLY like a magic trick to me. HotShot, please...

If ANYONE can levitate, under controlled conditions (It can be arranged to be done through the Australian Skeptics, I'm sure) you are eligible to win $1 million US from the James Randi Educational Foundation. http://www.randi.org/research/index.html As for all the stories of levitation...

You can't be fucking serious can you? Let me explain it to you; Magicians can do the same things he can do. They do it by tricking people, he does it by 'magic powers'.... Can you SEE what's going on?

Hmm... on second look, I really don't like the sound of that.

Sam brought it up, not us. But Physics does show that the only way a God can exist is either for a) known physics to be wrong, or b) for physics to not apply to God. Science is just a way of thinking, it is no specific formulas. Not entirely true. Physics has a good understanding of how...

I don't think that's an entirely accurate picture. I do think there are alot of people in the American military, even high-ranking people, whom look into such cases diligently... but it's a war zone, such investigations are not simple and there are people out there that will attempt to cover...

They're important questions.

It was a hypothesis. Do you understand what a scientific theory is? What? Prove that. Er prove tht also. You can never conclusively prove it of course. Do you have a basic understanding of the philosophy of science? It seems although you don't. Actually they have, they've...

What exactly is a 'war crime' under the geneva convention Jordan? The purpose of setting up the rules of war is to get differing parties to follow them, if you make them so strict that countries cannot wage war then they will not. I think people (both on this forum and on the news) are too...

I agree, but I don't think that's what happened. It is racist because he implied that because someone is of race X, they belong to fundamentalist religious group Y, with no other knowledge (as far as I know).

I think my mum actually listed me as a catholic, I really question the accuracy of a census when it comes to religion. Perhaps more young people will be more regular church attenders, but at the same time I think you'll find there is alot more young people completely turning away from the...

Yea, I dunno.... I'm starting to think maybe Sam isn't the physics guru he claims he is.

Just reading that thread I posted again, there are some more problems for sam to address: Add those to the ones I've already posted.

Not really. I'm just getting to the point, I see no reason to entertain the idea that you are being anything less than silly by making such claims. Without knowing the case, I cannot say. But I do know that when such stories are actually investigated, nothing comes up. They don't require...

I agree, I'm not a big fan of the 'person with a disability' tripe. I don't have a disability myself but I'm sure someone actually refering to you using such flowery language (as to not hurt your obviously weak, fragile, disabled feelings) would piss some people off :)

So it should all be the womans responsibility? BTW as far as I'm aware Condoms are generally accepted as the cheapest:most effective form of contraception.

errr... realllly poor analogy, I think you've misunderstood so I'll restate my question. If you allow men to absolve their responsibility to a child, doesn't that take away a huge incentive for men to practice safe sex? Wouldn't that then lead to more unwanted pregnancies?

Yea, seems a little silly doesn't it? Would you think I'm silly if I said I believe the tooth fairy exists, offering up no proof? It's exactly the same. Then I'd attribute it to aliens comming from outter space and with their highly advanced technology, making it appear like it is a miracle...

Aside from the fact that you advocate a very expensive draconian policing option to stop abortions from being carried out, that paying for a baby is more expensive than assisting women in getting abortions and that in my discussion the premise was that abortions were legal (obviously, look at...

There's never any solid proof for them. With the 10000000's of miracles which I can tell you, I know are lies, I'm not willing to easily believe that you know of 1 which is real (and is most likely very similar to the ones which are lies :) ) I would attribute it to my insanity before I...