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"Dan Wood" <danwood34@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> "Daniel T." <daniel_t@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > "Dan Wood" <danwood34@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > Until the creation of the Hubble telescope no one knew anything
> > > about the formation of planetary systems in the Orion nebula.
> > > Does that mean that this was not happening before Hubble? The
> > > existance of microscopic organisms was not recognized for
> > > centuries before the invention of the microscope. Does that
> > > mean they did not exist before they were discovered?
> >
> > These are great points! People didn't even talk about microscopic
> > organisms until after they were discovered.
> >
> They had no way to observe or detect such organisms. Nevertheless,
> they were very real.
Right.
> > Why then do you talk so glibly about the supernatural?
>
> A few centuries ago, illness was believed to be caused by
> supernatural enities, ie evil spirits, spells cast, the evil eye
> etc. But today we understand that invisiable (to the naked eye)
> microbes can and do cause illness and death. Nothing has changed
> except our understanding and our ability to incorporate our
> knowledge into prevention and cures.
>
> An out of touch person seeing a TV for the first time might see
> this as magic or supernatural. Many intelligent Americans have
> absolutely no idea how TVs works, but would feel highly superior to
> the superstitious primitive who might think it works by magic, but
> has only a slightly better understanding of its workings. The fact
> that science doesn't know how to test for the supernatural could
> possibility be because of its shortcomings at the present time.
Exactly. So many times, things that we thought were supernatural turned
out to have natural explanations. Are you sure you want to assert that
the things you currently think are supernatural will never have any sort
of natural explanation? Are you like that "out of touch" TV watcher?
> > > Most people at some time in their lives has intuition which
> > > come true.
> >
> > People win the lottery too.
>
> Sure, but this proves only good luck.
That's all intuition is...
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