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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mitch Blevins who wrote (7883)	9/7/2001 11:15:31 PM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

I would offer that this was not really a scientific dissection of the data. I'd have to have the raw data to make up my mind, but I think that some of the ad hominem stuff weakens his argument. Academic study is pretty conservative. I'm wondering if there is a bit of the ET stigma going on here. Even serious researchers are ribbed about "little green men". The Optical SETI group at SPIE's conference was relegated to an embarrassed corner annex (nowhere near the main conferences). My illness that day (a bout of flu) prevented me from attending that session, but I was planning to. I work for a very conservative medical device company. I'm wondering what they would do if a clinician came forward to them with a proposal to study it. Following this avenue of study is just not funded. We could do our own study here on SI. One person could design the experiment. Someone else could moderate it. We could do three trials flipping coins. It isn't hard to test. But to be honest who wants to spend their free time doing it. I don't. I like riding my mountain bike and if I'm using my skills, I like to get paid (or be having a lot of fun). My point is that areas of research that receive serious study first have to be funded. Much of geology was funded by the oil-companies. Much of the sedimentology of the US was uncovered by core samples which were drilled in the search for oil and gas. It would be pretty easy to conduct such a study, but I was left wondering who would pay for it? More to the point, Mitch. I doubt you and I will ever see a serious study that just doesn't have some sort of ax to grind. A study I'd want would be prayer from a host of non-Christians, Christians, Agnostics and Atheist. I'd do a factorial study and we'd have data by next year. But, who, is going to fund me?