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This post just made me think about how I don't fit in this guild. I'm in the atheist guild as well, because I am a pagan, but an atheist too. Is that really weird?

I guess first and foremost, I am a scientist. My religious beliefs are really an outgrowth of my knowledge of science, and my own observations. When science contradicts an idea I had previously, I adjust my beliefs. I don't know a whole lot about quantum mechanics, (just when you think you understand it, you realize you haven't got a clue) but I would think that any knowledge gained from it would have to mesh with one's religious beliefs. If there is a discrepancy, either our current knowledge of quantum mechanics is wrong, or our beliefs are wrong, and I'd bet on beliefs not backed up by science being wrong.

Maybe my thoughts on this are more simply that I don't think there's such a thing as 'supernatural.' Things that people may call supernatural (ghosts, magic, etc) are just as natural as atoms, gravity, plants, electromagnetic energy, or anything else that we categorize as natural. We live in a (relatively) ordered universe. Cause and effect reign. I would say that a supernatural phenomenon is a natural phenomenon not yet understood.

His experiments have indeed been criticized for lack of controls, holding back information, not sufficiently eliminating observer bias, and so on. The studies have not been replicated, despite attempts to do so. Emoto is not a scientist, however, and makes no claim of being one. He sells pretty calendars though.