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

To: LLCF who wrote (24517)	7/12/2006 12:02:21 PM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

"you have to admit that not being able to 'witness' anything, especially with the naked eye, is pretty meaningless." Understand "witness" in the context of reasonable grounds for belief. There are no reasonable grounds to believe that "life" sneaks out of people or viruses or squirrels when they die and wanders about. It is possible--but it is no more evidenced than that invisible bottles of beer slip out of people when they die and wander about. "Lot's of "whackos" trying to prove the existence of "Qi":" Some people, in any case. en.wikipedia.org "Much of the criticism of qigong involves its claimed method of operation. Both traditional Chinese and Western medicine practitioners have little argument with the notion that qigong can improve and in many cases maintain health by encouraging movement, increasing range of motion, relaxation, and improving joint flexibility and resilience.[citation needed] However, the benefits of qigong become much more controversial when it is asserted that qigong derives its benefits from qi acting as a kind of "biological plasma" that cannot be detected by our sense organs or their extensions in the form of scientific instruments. Many biologists and physicists are skeptical of these claims and regard them as pseudoscientific"