"* But as long as human beings do not know how things begin, how life is created, we cannot know that there was not an instigating force, a creator that can be called a god.

* As long as human beings can not explain simple cases of thought transference, cannot explain prediction and prognostication, cannot explain glimpses of the "other side", cannot explain altruism, cannot, for heaven's sake, even explain love, there is a whole hell of a lot that they don't know.

A personal god, on the other hand, is extremely problematic." - Ebbie

There are lots of things we can't explain, but then, not so many years ago we couldn't explain the wasting disease eventually recognised as diabetes, or why we have Northern Lights, or how the ozone layer works.

Some of the prediction, prognostication, ESP, etc., experiences, when not outright fraudulent, can be explained by the way the human brain processes information.

Deja vu, that spooky sensation almost everyone's experienced, has been explained as a memory processing glitch, where an immediate experience is recognised by the brain as a long term memory instead of a just-now-happened memory.

Prediction involves many possible factors.

Example: you dream of an airplane crash, and soon after, an airplane crashes. But airplanes do crash, you may have been worried about someone flying, or are fearful of flying yourself, and it is not an uncommon thing to dream of your fears.

Example: someone makes a spoken prediction that someone will die. I have an aunt who does this, and is embarrassed by it, and is chillingly accurate. But I know my aunt is a very empathetic person, and a keen observer, and has spent a great deal of her free time helping people who are seniors or disabled. I think she unwittingly recognises symptoms of illness that are very subtle, ones she has remembered appeared before other deaths. I think this is a remarkable, if un-nerving, ability, but I seriously doubt that it is 'psychic'.

However, I remain, ever hopeful, an agnostic. ;-)