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Originally Posted by alextsakiris  I just don't like to slip into (although I sometimes do) thinking Skeptics are somehow different/illogical/conspiratorial. |
I don't think that is what Carter is implying. My understanding of his argument is that we're simply stuck in a materialistic paradigm, which is basically the same view that you're taking (as I understand it, anyway). Maybe his way to put it is a bit harsh at times, but I don't think he's trying to say that there's a big conspiracy going on or something, as you seem to imply in your remark above.
As for me, I think theory is what's going to be needed for the paradigm to shift. You can produce as much evidence as you like, but as long as you have no way of explaining what's behind it, skeptics are likely to explain it away. It was the same with continental drift; the evidence was there, but scientists wouldn't allow for continental drift to happen until there was a theory to explain how it happened.