Reply #174: "you people"? minus Skinner I presume? [View All]

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Do you really expect people to be as gullible as you are - taken in as you clearly are by a hilariously imaginative polysyllabic Greek neologism?

In statistics, apophenia is called a Type I error, seeing patterns where none, in fact, exist. It is highly probable that the apparent significance of many unusual experiences and phenomena are due to apophenia, e.g., ghosts and hauntings, EVP, numerology, the Bible code, anomalous cognition, ganzfeld "hits", most forms of divination, the prophecies of Nostradamus, remote viewing, and a host of other paranormal and supernatural experiences and phenomena.

http://skepdic.com/apophenia.html

"Scientific thinkers I have known." You'll just have to do better than that.

Did I write that? Did anyone?

In terms of empirical deduction, the origins of the universe are as much a closed book to you presumptuous nerds as to the rest of us; you're just too wilfully dumb to accept it.

Check out those DU rules. :thumbsup: