Abiogenesis (Origins)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Tuesday, August 09, 2011, 18:50 (4634 days ago) @ David Turell

b_c: They haven't found an explanation for what? 'Unexplained psychic phenomenon' is a completely empty phrase. Every single 'psychic phenomenon' that has ever been explained has been a trick. Every. Single. One. 
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> There is currently no explanation for near-to-death or out-of-body experiences,and a large number of the ND's have third party verification, much of which we have discussed in the past. 
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> dhw: I was brought up in a Liberal Jewish household, turned atheist in my teens, then read The Origin of Species and became an agnostic.
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> So was I: became agnostic in medical school and changed back to panentheist believing in a UI, after reading innumerable books on cosmology, particle physics, standard model, string theory, evolution, philosophy, and atheism.-While I've been pretty open on the forum, Kent and I are really getting reacquainted. -I started out Christian until George Carlin when I was 15; after that I was a dogmatic atheist until about 2002-2003 when I realized with distaste that certain atheistic positions required me to use faith. At about this time I also discovered Buddhism and began practicing it, lapsing in about 2007 only to resume it again this year. Religiously speaking, I'm a firm agnostic: I see no need for a creator, but I can't epistemologically say no creator exists.

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