Message #3321

[Martin]

Given me a 'hearing' ??? What do you think this is - some forum variant of a court of Law?? Me on trial??

It's not you who is on trial, but your position, the opinion you and others claim as fact. That's what scientific scrutiny is.

I have already given you more than one example many times over and you know it. They don't fit your bill because you are a closed minded skeptic Martin. I think that even if a spirit materialized in front of you and shook your hand - you would still not believe what you had seen. Despite all the areas covered which clearly point to the existence of the afterlife - it makes no difference to you.Your mind is already made up.

Oh I do show a healthy scepticism about spirits, because I have good reason to do so!  But my posts on this thread are not scepticism.  On this thread I am making a statement of fact and challenging you to disprove it.   All it would take to do so is to produce one piece of properly controlled evidence, something published in a scientific journal, repeatable and verifiable, I am not contesting that something called a soul might exist. I'm stating as a matter of fact, that there is no scientifically controlled evidence which supports its existence. 

Now can you give me 'properly controlled scientific evidence for the non existence of a soul'

The very nature of scientific evidence is that it is not possible to do this.  And the fact that you are asking for it shows that you haven't been reading what I'm saying (either that or you are again trying to sidetrack the issue away from your lack of evidence).  You are the one demonstrating your closed-mindedness.  I am simply demonstrating my good reasoning.

The fact that one cannot provide scientific evidence to disprove the existence of something, has never been under dispute by me.  I cannot produce a properly controlled experiment to show that hippogryphs, yettis, invisible dragons or whatever, do not exist, though to prove that they do, all I would have to do is to produce one.