Re: Pseudo-science

From: "Robert J. Kolker" <nowhere@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 13 May 2006 09:21:08 -0500

John Burton wrote:

No they are not. Every single verified fact that we have relates to the *natural*. Zero facts relate to "non-natural" phenomena, which are *categorically* unknown.

And by their nature, unknowable. Everything we know comes through our sense organs. You can't get more natural that that. We know the world because of photons and pressure waves in the air. We have no other ways of knowing.

Bob Kolker

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- Pseudo-science
  - From: mccoy
- Re: Pseudo-science
  - From: John Burton

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