From: david@edenroad.demon.co.uk   
      
   On Thu, 01 Feb 2007 21:22:45 +0000, MikeH wrote:   
      
   >   
   > "David Mitchell"  wrote in message   
   > news:pan.2007.02.01.20.35.49.437900@edenroad.demon.co.uk...   
   >> On Thu, 01 Feb 2007 17:31:34 +0000, MikeH wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>   
   >> Open minds are not the exclusive province of poets and dreamers.  In fact,   
   >> I see more closed-mindedness in this newsgroups from the "mystical" side   
   >> of the fence than from the "scientists".  Scientists must, by definition,   
   >> allow empirical evidence to govern which theories they can accept.   
   >> Mystics have no such constraints.   
   >   
   > My point is that here we have seen extreme points of view trying to negate   
   > each other. The logical versus the imaginative. Yes The Wright brothers were   
   > poets.   
      
   Changing the definitions of words to suit your purpose, is not a good way   
   to win an argument.   
      
   > The cold logical scientist,   
   > the linear thinker just may not be capable of accepting that what is   
   > currently deemed to be impossible or irrational could just become the future   
   > reality. We must have the imaginative, the possibly ridiculous, so that we   
   > can try to achieve it, often by trial and error. Saying that is it not   
   > possible, out of hand, will MAKE it impossible, because we will give up   
   > under the bombardment of negativity. If we say it COULD be possible, then we   
   > will try until we KNOW one way or the other and move on. I have had very   
   > many personal experiences which come under the heading of clairsentience and   
   > can be dismissed as merely anecdotal   
   > (and, therefore, untrue?)   
      
   Perhaps you might think so; but you would be misunderstanding the   
   scientific process.  I would say "unproven".   
      
   > but I , too,   
   > find it offensive that what I have done and witnessed should be so   
   > cavalierly dismissed.   
      
   Regardless of how important these events were to you, they remain   
   "anecdotal at best" unless you have some means of proving them.   
      
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