[extropy-chat] John Wright Finds God

[Damien Broderick]

>As for psi phenomena, there is plenty of experimental evidence.

Granting this (as I do, to the horror of many extropes), there is no 
obvious link between that evidence and claims of the supernatural.

Granting its validity for the sake of the discussion, psi evidence might 
suggest that, e.g., quantum entanglement *can* convey information under 
some circumstances, etc; what it doesn't do (unless a deity bafflingly 
likes to help willing subjects gain scores of 70%, at best, when 50% or 20% 
would be expected by chance) is manifest the activities of a divine 
designer/sustainer of our observable ontology. No more than lightning, 
however inexplicable at the time, proved the reality of a thundering storm god.

Damien Broderick