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Thread #142452   Message #3299732
Posted By: Steve Shaw
31-Jan-12 - 12:35 PM
Thread Name: BS: Young Earth Creationism Eureka!
Subject: RE: BS: Young Earth Creationism Eureka!
Steve, I'll agree that we have no hard evidence for telepathy, but note that our understanding of the interior workings of our bodies and brains is currently at the kindergarten stage. We know there's a lot we don't know. I certainly don't believe in telepathy (in the sense that I don't believe anything that's presently unknowable), but it doesn't actually break any currently known laws of the universe.

We have no evidence of any kind (bar anecdotes, which shouldn't really count as evidence, eh? At least, not on their own!) Your final statement sounds suspiciously akin to the claim of those believers who say that we can't prove that God breaks the laws of nature, because we don't know all the laws of nature... I think, actually, that telepathy, as usually characterised, does break the laws of nature we know about. Depends somewhat on how confident we are that we'll find some new laws of nature that, er, break the laws of nature...