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Originally Posted by DaveMatrix
So you learned to spell hypothesis......wow.
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Not sure if you got this, but he spelled it right the first time. Plural of hypothesis is hypotheses.
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Originally Posted by DaveMatrix
I simply find it amazing when somebody categorically states that ESP does not exist. That is the height of arrogance since there is no possible way to know that. Much like your statement that squeebs PC was Virus Free!! Although invisible processes might be rare, there is no possible way for you to know that one is or isn't present based on a HijackThis log.......I find your superiority complex amusing.......  |
I don't know what all this stuff is about squeebs and viruses, but have a point to make here.
Nobody can say categorically that ESP does not exist, any more than someone can categorically say that Thor the Norse god of thunder does not exist (or to use a less trite example, that pyramids don't have the power to sharpen razorblades). You can't prove a negative, as we all know.
The fact is, however, that despite various efforts to detect such an effect, no peer-reviewed study has found any evidence that ESP is real phenomenon. Is it possible that ESP exists but simply has never been reproduced in a study? Yes. Does that mean you should believe it exists? Up to you, but as has been pointed out already, if all the evidence you need that something is real is that nobody's proven it isn't, then you should be believing all sorts of wacky ideas. So, putting the question back to you - why do you believe in ESP when there is no proper evidence to support it? Why this phenomenon and not others?
Martian is absolutely dead on about your misunderstanding of the scientific method.
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Originally Posted by DaveMatrix
It was once assumed that communication through invisible waves traveling through the air was impossible. Now we realize that although radio & microwaves are invisible, communication is possible with them. Hey we can even use light now......I'm certain this was all "magical" & "mysterious" in the day, the stuff of science fiction. Yet some "open minded" individuals decided to endure the ridicule and move science forward...as often happens.
The scientific truths of today are often obsolete tomorrow....
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You do realize that there is a difference between something being "impossible" and nobody knowing how to do it (or even to think about doing it) right? Radio waves - I'd have to check but I suspect nobody knew they even existed for very long (relatively speaking) before Marconi figured out how to transmit information over them.