Friday, November 9, 2018

Steve Braude's Levitating Table


Steve Braude, author of "The Gold Leaf Lady and Other Parapsychological Investigations" (University of Chicago Press, 2007), gets all excited when a table levitates:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9mVoQFqR6o

here's my reply:




 Braude "explains" in this interview.

Sorry, but it doesn't matter if the spiritual realm is real, Christian apologists, who routinely cite to Braude's investigations as "good evidence" of the paranormal, cannot intellectually obligate atheists to give up materialism with such stuff.  Atheists are not "irrational" or "unreasonable" to point out the obvious flaws in this stuff as reasons to continue saying such evidence doesn't defeat materialism.

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