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To: Greg or e who wrote (64839)1/13/2015 4:16:06 AM
From: Solon  Read Replies (1) of 69300
 
"I have never known of a "supernatural revelation" that had any evidence to support it."
That's not what you said previously. Are you lying now or were you lying
then????
I am not lying, and I did not lie in the link you posted. The "supernatural revelation" I mentioned had no evidence to support it. The fact that it was true indicates (to me) either coincidence, trickery, or fortuitous conclusions flowing from unconscious information. I am aware of no evidence to support a diagnosis based on a vision.

I will give another example to make this clear to you, as I know you are quite confused about what is meant by "evidence".

A person my wife and I know is very involved in "psychic" healing. This person had an (apparently) cancerous growth on her face which resisted all her "alternative" treatment methods. Eventually, she spent a considerable sum to travel to a healer. I can attest that the growth was gone within about 4 months after her return. Was this evidence for a supernatural healing? No. The reason for the healing is unknown. But unknown does not equate to supernatural. It may well be that certain people (or all people) have latent healing powers not yet adequately defined by Science. But this is not evidence of the supernatural. Skydiving would appear supernatural to primitive man. However, we know it is naturally allowed by the laws of physics.

Don't mistake the awe that Einstein had for the mysteries of the unknown with any belief in "revelation". All free thinkers with any imagination find the universe and the life in it to be full of wonder and awe. There is magic in our ignorance simply because the incomprehensible has always a magical character.

I have sat at table with great magicians and witnessed "magical" events that I could not rationally compute--even with a fairly adequate knowledge of magic and magicians. Did I consider them supernatural beings? Not at all. Was I mystified and awe-struck? You bet I was.
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