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| Quote (Richardthughes @ Sep. 13 2007,08:56) | MEGATARD!
I'm going to have to reproduce the whole thing in case someone from the reality based community has a word with him, and he deletes it:
http://intelligentreasoning.blogspot.com/2007....fi.html
| Quote | Thursday, September 13, 2007
The Explanatory Filter (EF) used on the Sci-Fi Channel!
All too often I here cries that the Explanatory Filter is not used by anyone, anywhere. I have always responded that the people who say that do not know how to determine design in the absence of watching the designer at work.
But anuway, the Sci-Fi Channel has a show called "Ghost Hunters". Their methodology on the show captures/ models the EF.
That is with every phenomenon they observe they first try to explain it without calls to "ghosts". IOW they set out to debunk the claim(s) of "ghost(s)".
If they have high EMF readings they try to find a normal electrical source.
If doors open and close in the absence of a person they try to find some "natural" cause.
If shadows move across a room they try to find a "natural" cause.
Only once all possible "natural" causes are ruled out do they come to a paranormal inference.
That is the EF in action! |
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Joe "likes" putting "natural" in "scare quotes" but he can't "spell" the "word" hear.
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"I am not currently proving that objective morality is true. I did that a long time ago and you missed it." -- StephenB
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