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Do Psychics Have Supernatural Powers

10/3/2016

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I am not just an Atheist, which is limited by its definition as one realizing that no God(s) exists. I like the term Unbeliever because I cannot accept anything supernatural, in the broadest sense, which can not be scientifically proven. The people who believe in the existence of the Hereafter, Astrology, Fortune telling and Karma, to name a few, always try to prove the existence of the supernatural phenomena by anecdotal testimonies and  illogical explanations of natural phenomena. NDEs for example can be explained to be hallucinations, faulty memories and confabulation (see: http://www.origin-of-religion.com/bens-blog/nde-study-awareness-finally-published ).
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Lately I noticed a spate of psychics which where successful in solving crimes, suggesting that some people have special powers. When one reports such a happening one should also report extensively how many predictions by that person were made and what percentage were failures. You will come to the conclusion that the small success rates were due to intelligent guesswork rather then supernatural powers. Since there are hundreds of psychics around and if some of them really had this kind of ability,  we would solve all the crimes in the world. If Fortune tellers had their claimed powers, all the lotteries would be won by psychics. Now there might be an instance where, because of shear luck, an fortune teller won a lottery, but let him/her do it twice. Good Luck.
There have been many research scientists who claimed to have proved the existence of supernatural phenomena but if one does look close into the results, none of them, claiming success, have been able to stand up to close scrutiny of their peers.


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