Ooh! Me next!
First up:
\r\n\r\nIf reality is defined by consciousness, where was all the reality before us conscious slugs of carbon came along to observe it? How did we get to be real without being observed? Whose wave-form collapsed first, the chicken's or the egg's?
\r\n\r\nDifficulty: no Berkelian cop-out; God's got better things to do with His time than observe a tree in the courtyard just so it can keep existing when everyone's down at the pub.
\r\n\r\n\r\nSecond:
\r\n\r\nSo quantum mechanics could explain action at a distance, all sorts of psychic phenomena. Fine, good, except at the moment there's no evidence that there are any psychic phenomena to explain. Nobody has yet managed to put James Randi's money where his mouth is. Solution in search of a problem, maybe?
\r\n\r\nDifficulty: hire professional magicians, preferably stage folk and mentalists, to come along and conduct test observations of any claimed paranormal phenomena. Let me know when you find something they can't explain using the standard tricks of their business.
\r\n\r\nThird:
\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJohns Hopkins psychiatrist Patricia Newton explains the mechanism: "(Traditional healers) are able to tap that other realm of negative entropy - that superquantum velocity and frequency of electromagnetic energy and bring them as conduits down to our level. It's not magic. It's not mumbo jumbo. You will see the dawn of the 21st century, the new medical quantum physics really distributing these energies and what they are doing"
Tell me what the heck the "negative entropy" and "superquantum velocity" and such are. Because it sure sounds to me like a quack hiding behind big trendy buzzwords. It's "(a+b^n)/n = x, therefore God exists" in new clothing.
\r\n\r\nFinal potshot: author of linked article admits just how much BS there is in this stuff.
\r\n\r\nRespond!