home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Xref: sparky sci.skeptic:22966 alt.paranormal:2873
- Path: sparky!uunet!opl.com!hri.com!spool.mu.edu!sdd.hp.com!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!cs.uiuc.edu!mcgrath
- From: mcgrath@cs.uiuc.edu (Robert McGrath)
- Newsgroups: sci.skeptic,alt.paranormal
- Subject: Re: New Physics, Healing, Paranormal
- Message-ID: <C1J87B.FFp@cs.uiuc.edu>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 21:40:22 GMT
- References: <1993Jan27.035336.6911@Princeton.EDU> <-xq3+jr@rpi.edu> <1k6kgnINNqb9@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> <C1J5F3.3C2@apollo.hp.com>
- Sender: news@cs.uiuc.edu
- Reply-To: mcgrath@cs.uiuc.edu
- Organization: University of Illinois, Dept of Computer Science
- Lines: 21
-
- In article <C1J5F3.3C2@apollo.hp.com>, nelson_p@apollo.hp.com (Peter Nelson) writes in part:
- |> (Christopher Jon Petit) writes:
- |> > As for all the ESP info---consider this. There are many urban legends which
- |> >involve ESP as 'saving the day' Now, in order for ESP not to exist, EVERY ONE
- |> >of those stories must have either an alternate explaination or be totally false
- |> >. But, if even one has no such explaination, and is somewhat true, then ESP
- |> >exists in some form.
- |>
- |> But that doesn't follow that I or anyone else has to be able to SHOW
- |> you what the alternative explanation is.
- |>
- |> Basically your logic is faulty. YOU have made the positive assertion
- |> (ESP is real) therefore YOU have the obligation to support it.
-
- Heck, "ESP" isn't even a single thing, it is just the absence of other
- explanations.
-
- --
- Robert E. McGrath
- Urbana Illinois
- mcgrath@cs.uiuc.edu
-