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To: Alamo-Girl
You did the same.

Fair enough, but personal feelings and perceptions are not available for examination and discussion among groups of people.

Civilization is the result of commonly agreed upon perceptions. Science and technology are built on carefully constructed and tested conjectures, hypotheses and theories, ideas that pass the same test regardless of race, religion, nationality or politics. Those using the same methodology get the same results.

322 posted on 01/28/2009 10:13:18 AM PST by js1138
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To: js1138; betty boop; hosepipe
And if an investigator could recreate a phenomenon under laboratory conditions - or observe it consistently - it would neither be called a miracle nor supernatural.

Those who have experienced such miracles - e.g. Christians like me - do not question whether they are real. But of course we cannot convince someone who has not yet experienced it.

The objective of the thread was to reveal our worldviews - "where we were coming from" - up front. There is little point in berating someone for not seeing or appreciating something he cannot see or appreciate as you do.

325 posted on 01/28/2009 10:27:41 AM PST by Alamo-Girl
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