[extropy-chat] Re: Re: John Wright Finds God

[Samantha Atkins]

On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 09:11:28 -0600, john-c-wright at sff.net
<john-c-wright at sff.net> wrote:
> With no trace of irony, Mme. Yudkowsky writes
> >Samantha, you are an inspiration to rationalists.
> 
> The argument that, since there are by definition no supernatural events, ergo
> all reports of supernatural events must be false, is circular. Real skeptics do
> not take conclusions as articles of faith.

This is a rather limited and surprising tack to pull out of a much
richer conversation.   BTW, please say precisely as you can what you
do and do not mean by "supernatural".

If you have read what I have written on this subject in particular  I
don't think you can dismiss me as taking any conclusions "as articles
of faith".

- s