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Idolatry which claims none of them will ever again have to be revised or rejected. Too many have been revised or rejected in this century alone.
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Scientific Method (SM) the alleged source of the certitude of those I call the New
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laws of physics that are always obeyed, but Wilson has not seen any sign of it around in this one. Wilson draws on a large number of accounts of recorded events said to be "paranormal" but dismissed by materialist science as
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Book Review: The New
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