lol, you're going to hate me for nit picking, but...
Actually, I get what you are going for, however, calling it "prediction" as opposed to something like "precognition" might confuse it with some of the nearly paranormal things the brain is capable of doing.
The ability of humans to predict the outcome of events is uncanny. Without getting into too much depth, it is because of our ability to predict the sensory consequences to our actions that master boxers or martial artists are able to dodge blows in less time than it would take for them to process the attack through their visual system.
About people who would park before the train track and set their cars in neutral. Then the cars would move over the train tracks on what looks like completely flat ground. People would then put baby powder on the back to reveal hand prints.
The show eventually goes unto to prove that the supposedly flat ground is actually at a slight, misleading angle that is just enough to allow gravity to move the stationary car.
As to the hands it was shown that all the baby powder revealed was the oil residue from people that had put their hands on the cars before. Cause you know people are always putting their hands across cars.
As to the question of this thread I do believe in forces we can not possibly begin to comprehend to even begin to test for.
Or one simply doesn't believe in any of that junk. There, problem solved.
Btw, "If this, then that" statements rarely work well with religion, and also requires evidence for the "this" first, before anything can logically follow from it.
I'd like to believe there are angels and demons because that would mean we're not alone in this great big universe.
I've heard and read of eye witness accounts of demon possession and I've heard the logical scientific rebuttals to these accounts.
It doesn't really matter at the end of the day there is much that science can't explain and though religion seems to have all the answers, believing those answers demands a greater effort on our part than observing evidence would.
Reminds me of that quote by Jesus in the New Testament "blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed."
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Iboga chose not to fight, to allow himself to evolve. He had the wisdom to abandon the actions of war when he knew they would no longer serve him.
Which is a handy phrase for a religion that offers no evidence for itself.
Most theistic traditions have some similar doctrine or saying, because utterly blind faith is needed to accept any of it.
Saying that there's a lot science can't explain doesn't really cut it either. The amount of material where that saying still applies is actually rather small, and dwindling yearly. And saying that it can't explain everything doesn't make an alternative opinion true simply because it's different.
In other words, you can believe if you want to. But there still isn't a good reason to do so.
Uhh, Dark Matter can be tested for. It is a scientific concept, and so has proof (mostly observational conjecture at the moment) supporting the idea.
I have no idea what Dark Energy is/how it was proposed. My ignorance isn't a good enough reason to declare it unknowable though.
If something can be observed, then it can be tested. If something can't be observed (by instruments or the naked eye (or, I suppose, through its effects on other matter)) then there is no reason to suspect it exists.
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I disagree. What you gain from religion is an evolutionary advantage. Remember the only reason religion exists is because those who believed in religion where able to survive and have children. In the past, religion was able to give people something that they needed to survive. I think we need to control and change religion to better meet the needs of the modern world.
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Dec 18th, 2008 02:49 AM
Well mountains are all over the place. Why didn't we notice before? 
