From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Mon Dec 17 2001 - 02:42:01 MST
At 06:42 PM 12/16/01 -0500, Eliezer wrote:
>But anyway, this hypothesis about reality - that spirituality represents
>drawing on a real, external source of knowledge, where this knowledge is
>more accessible to humans who place themselves in particular emotional
>states - is a straightforward one, and one to which I can
>straightforwardly reply "You're wrong." And you can reply "You're
>wrong." And there, I think, things rest, unless you'd like me to try and
>unlace your faith.
Leaving Samantha's faith fully laced for the moment, what about turning
your efforts to winning the million bucks allegedly available at
http://www.victorzammit.com/challenge.html
< One million dollars is offered to any skeptic who can rebut the evidence
for the existence of the afterlife. >
< The applicant has to rebut the substantive objective evidence presented
in Victor Zammit's A Lawyer Presents the Case for the Afterlife
http://www.victorzammit.com/book (see chapters 3 to 24) which includes:
Materialisation, Electronic Voice Phenomena, Instrumental
Transcommunication, the Scole Experiments, Professor Gary Schwartz'
Experiments, Mediumship - Mental, Physical and Direct Voice, Xenoglossy,
the Cross-Correspondences, Proxy Sittings, Automatic Etheric Writing,
Laboratory Experiments, Poltergeists, Apparitions together with the
evidence provided by Near Death Experiences and Out of Body Experiences
which psychics claim are supportive of and are directly linked with the
afterlife.
Further, the applicant has to rebut the afterlife evidence presented by
the following: Arthur Findlay's On the Edge of the Etheric, Sir William
Crookes' On Human Personality and Researches in the Phenomena of
Spiritualism; Sir Oliver Lodge's Raymond and Geraldine Cummins' Swan on a
Black Sea and the evidence provided by the Inner Peace Movement. >
In Popperian terms, alas, the `challenge' makes no sense at all, but it
might be amusing to hit the silly fellow with some heavy logic and evidence.
Damien Broderick
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