APE IN A CAPE: Question Of The Day

APE IN A CAPE: Question Of The Day:

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gailsimone:

Some of you may know that I am a genuine card-carrying skeptic, which doesn't mean, as is often said, that I don't believe in anything. What it means is that I don't believe in extraordinary things without evidence. Someone's opinion or anecdotal evidence isn't enough. This is a big problem on the…

I believe that there is always something amazing that man does not know, has not discovered or can not comprehend. So, I think it's possible that things that can be described as paranormal exist.

Okay, but see, I think that's an odd position. There ARE miracles and bizarre things discovered all the time…it's just that they involve the natural world. We've recently seen several "Lazarus species," animals we thought extinct, confirmed as alive in the last few years. A seventeen year old girl invented a new method to fight cancer. We have found new fossils of transitory life forms, there may be parts of Einstein's Theory of Relativity that we will have to update, we may actually be able to clone a wooly mammoth in a matter of a few years, we can grow flesh on a rat…

Why aren't these things capturing the imagination like a monster in a loch or an idiot who goes on tv and says he can talk to dead people using cold reading techniques that have been around for over a century?

Carl Sagan said we live in a Demon-Haunted World. I'm just wondering why the miracles that can't be proven are so much less urgent to most people than the ones that can.