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What exactly does it mean to "give subjective experience credibility?"
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I think he meant since none of us appear to have had any experience we could not imagine a scientific explanation to (i.e. one we could only logically imagine to be supernatural) we find it easy to utterly dismiss them. Which I think is interesting.
Of course it's always possible that given the same experience we would try harder to come up with a scientifically explainable reason, even a very unlikely one, in favor of the supernatural. Maybe that's why we have the agnostic/atheist viewpoint in the first place. Possibly we possess more knowledge or reasoning power in order to do so, possibly we just aren't as open-minded. We naturally reject the supernatural even in favour of an apparently very unlikely but scientifically possible explanation.
I use a Royal We of course. The above may not apply to everyone but it seems a trend among a lot of people on these forums.