A question to atheists

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Indeed. I was going to write that too but then I realized what an extremely easy con this particular one was. I think I may have even heard of it before. It's cheap trickery.

Funnily enough, I'm going to be tackling this exact kind of topic on my blog soon

And no matter what, no one can ever demonstrate supernatural causality. That is impossible. Even if no one in the world can come up with a rational, natural explanation, all that means is that we don't know. Any supernatural explanation can't possible be verified, and any made up one is as good as any other. He was possessed by a special mind reading dragon from China. A metaphysical truth seed nudged his brain. There's no way to distinguish between these and "God told him stuff". Just because he made the prediction and was "right" that doesn't mean he is also right if he starts driveling about supernatural things. It's still up to him to demonstrate that supernatural event, which of course is impossible. So it should be dismissed, along with all other unfalsifiable claims (anything supernatural).

If he says that exact line to a hundred christians he's probably going to get at least 90% finding a way to apply it to themselves and that's good enough for con boy.

Also, people have a tendency to want to make things apply to them. It's why horoscopes continue to fool people. Check this out from Derren Brown, it kind of engulfs this priest example:

http://youtu.be/2bCjzLij54k