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James ‘the dodger’ Dawson; you’re dodging again. When you can’t answer the evidence, you retreat into vague word-games and cheap childish insults. The phrase ‘Materialism of the Gaps’ isn’t YouTube fluff : it’s simply describing what you’re doing: assuming without evidence that science will someday explain away data that currently completely contradicts your worldview. That’s textbook promissory materialism.I'm not doing X, I'm doing Y..
Tiger would have us believe in alien abduction
It's not X, it's Y
And I mean, how stupid is "Materialism of the Gaps", where did you hear that from, a Daily Dose Of Special Needs YouTube video?
Science doesn't fill gaps in knowledge and understanding (with the supernatural), that's the point. Dreary me
My pet dog is better at debating than you are James. Resorting to childish insults isn’t an argument. If anything, it's tantamount to admitting defeat.No, it's really not. It's Daily Dose Of Special Needs and another religiotard babble incoherently about "materialism" for almost two hours
My pet dog is better at debating than you are James. Resorting to childish insults isn’t an argument. If anything, it's tantamount to admitting defeat.
Dr. Egnor is citing real clinical data—patients missing most of their brains who still function normally, conscious individuals with no cerebral hemispheres, and people who report accurate experiences during clinical death when the brain is shut down. In one particular case, the patient has had all the blood removed from her brain to allow the surgeon to repair an aneurysm.
And you explain them with your God stuffThese facts exist whether you like them or not. Materialism can’t explain them
, and sneering at those who point it out won’t make the evidence go away.
You have literally no argument in response so far.
Haha, you bloody ding dong - it’s not me who ‘brought God into this’ ; it’s the patients themselves you wally.And you explain them with your God stuff
Not to mention your "facts" don't show that consciousness can exist apart from the body. This was mentioned to you early doors but you don't listen to anything that's said to you
Haha, you bloody ding dong - it’s not me who ‘brought God into this’ ; it’s the patients themselves you wally.
People who were clinically dead consistently report encounters with God, Christ, or angelic beings. That’s THEIR testimony, not my projection. And these testimonies come from every corner of the globe, across religions and cultures, with strikingly consistent patterns. What happens with them lies outside the explanatory scope of material science; which is why it challenges materialism so deeply.
Also, to be clear - I haven’t ‘explained this with ‘God stuff.’ I’ve pointed to peer-reviewed medical data (van Lommel in The Lancet, Parnia’s AWARE project, the European Academy of Neurology’s 2019 survey) showing patients with no measurable brain activity reporting structured, veridical experiences. That’s evidence, not theology.
Naturally, your line that ‘the facts don’t show consciousness apart from the body’ is just a materialist mantra. The facts show that verifiable conscious experience occurs during periods when, under materialism, consciousness should be impossible; flatlined EEG, absent cortical function, sometimes for extended durations. That directly contradicts the materialist/atheist assumption that brain activity is consciousness.
So let’s flip it around: this isn’t me importing God; it’s you importing dogmatic materialism in the face of evidence that doesn’t fit. The data show consciousness functioning where your worldview says it cannot. If your only move is to ignore the evidence or call it ‘God of the Gaps,’ that’s not science; it’s denial.
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"It's not me who brought God into this".. is such a remarkable statement, what shall we put it down to, a complete lack of self-awareness?Are you not embarrassed by your feeble attempt at addressing the evidence?
You’ve literally provided nothing.
Nothing. Not A SINGLE FUCKING THING.
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For crying out loud James, that response is exactly what you always do when cornered: you can’t argue the point, so you dodge it with a childish - low IQ quip. It’s transparent. The irony is that you accuse me of lacking self-awareness, yet you’re the one avoiding the actual argument in front of you."It's not me who brought God into this".. is such a remarkable statement, what shall we put it down to, a complete lack of self-awareness?