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The Skeptic's Field Guide by Theo Clark and Jef Clark is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
The Skeptic's Field Guide by Theo Clark and Jef Clark is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
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Hey,
I like your website, its very helpful. I was wondering if you would like to exchange links. If yes, you can find my information below. Be sure to send me your information so we can properly swap links. Thank you and Happy Holidays!
Paranormal Knowledge
http://www.paranormalknowledge.com
Sincerely,
Jason
President, Paranormalknowledge.com
Hi Jason, thanks for your compliment.
I've had the chance to browse around your website. I started at the About Page and was a little wary, but hopeful (unduly as it turned out), with this statement:
A standard definition for the word paranormal would be “of or pertaining to the claimed occurrence of an event or perception without scientific explanation, as psychokinesis, extrasensory perception, or other purportedly supernatural phenomena“. Here at Paranormalknowledge.com, we are dedicated in providing you content that revolves around that single word. Unlike most sites, our information comes from reliable sources...
The bolded bit was where I derived my hope from, but the rest had me worried. Anyway, I then looked at your "articles" and was delighted to find such reliable, well researched, knowledgeable and evidence based articles as these two.
(FYI: I'll now preface the following comments I make with "no offense". As such, you ought to not be offended by any of my comments. Arguably, this is somewhat disingenuous.)
From your article on Creation: In the Bible, we hear of seven days in which God created the Heavens and the Earth. God created a man named Adam and woman named Eve. This story is considered by many religions to be the starting point of human history. Yet, can this be true?
Okay, not too bad so far. I just knew the author's next section would be to sweep away this myth written by (literally) ignorant, pre-scientific tribes people, with the currently accepted scientific account of the big-bang and consequent evolution of the universe. It continues:
Th realistic origins of man are shrouded in mystery and are up for debate... No scientist knows how we suddenly appeared.
"No offense", but WTF? This is simply ignorant, misleading and wrong. We didn't "suddenly appear". Here's just the Homo genus: Homo habilis, Homo rudolfensis and Homo georgicus, Homo ergaster and Homo erectus, Homo cepranensis and Homo antecessor, Homo heidelbergensis, Homo rhodesiensis, and the Gawis cranium, Homo neanderthalensis, Homo sapiens.
Some of the specific details are still being worked on, but human evolution is clear.
Your article continues:
It has been speculated that the reason why we suddenly appeared could be that God saw how the earth was flourishing and needed a source to take care of it. That is where humans came in. So, in a way, the creation story does have some truth to it. Maybe we weren’t created in a seven-day period, but we certainly could have suddenly appeared out of the blue from the source of a higher power.
I won't bother with the (what should be self-evidently) inane "logic", but I will ask, how does the unreferenced claim that "It has been speculated that the reason why we suddenly appeared could be that God saw how the earth was flourishing and needed a source to take care of it." meet your laudable standards of evidence? Viz:
...our information comes from reliable sources.
Okay, perhaps this article was just an anomaly? Let's have a look at Barack Obama: The Antichrist?. Should be a short article, I thought. I.e., "No - there's no such thing as the Antichrist. Only deluded adults and their poor, unfortunate children believe such obvious fiction." ("No offense" for that preceding bit.) But then we have:
In a world of terror and violence, we humans are no strangers to suffering. The bible specifically states in the Book of Revelation that the end of the world would occur in a time of great turmoil under a man known as the Antichrist. It is said that this man will be the downfall of all mankind. Thousands will flock to him, he will speak false words which will influence acts of violence, and he will be viewed as a savior. This November, the United States elected Barack Obama as the next President. It has been said that he may be the one who will fulfill this prophecy.
Don’t believe me? You think it doesn’t seem possible? Just think about it for a second. The world is in a terrible state right now. Americans flocked to Obama as their savior who will set things right. Obama is also a critic of religion. He is viewed as a savior by millions of people. Perhaps his four years could be filled with evil deeds which will culminate to his re-election in 2012, at which point the Mayan prophecy of the end of the world may come true. Barack Obama could be the destruction of all mankind
Again, "no offense", but this is paranoid, deluded and inane drivel of the highest order. Even if you disagree with this, I see no evidence of this: Unlike most sites, our information comes from reliable sources...
Needless to say (though I'll say it just in case I'm being overly optimistic) the Simple Minded Certitude with which your articles espouse WTF? claims leads me to conclude that swapping links would be inappropriate, to say the least (and "no offense"). I'd come back and visit your site regularly for fodder for my site, but I've already got Conservipedia for that.
As if these false claims weren't bad enough, I then saw this claim?
...the number one paranormal information website on the Internet today, Paranormalknowledge.com!
You better tell google they have their indexing wrong then...
How's this for a bit of a syllogism: Arses are the source of all crap. The 'facts' in their articles are complete crap. Therefore they pulled their articles out of their arses. No offense ;)
@Bum man the conclusion to your syllogism should be:
Therefore they pulled their "facts" out of their arses.
Otherwise it's good.
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