Well, it was a coincidence that yesterday as I was working, I was thinking about so-called psychics (OMG! I must be psychic!). They call it "Extra-Sensory Perception" and supposedly is a function of the brain. The problem is that even so-called psychics do no better than chance in a controlled environment. But the part I was really thinking of was that if this is supposed to be some sort of means of perception by our brains, it seems like it's pretty damn unreliable. I know what my house looks like and can navigate around even in the dark. I know what my wife's voice sounds like day in and day out. A song you hear on the radio today sounds the same as the first time you ever heard it. Food, if prepared the same way, usually always tastes the same. A bottle of cologne smells the same day in and day out. In other words, our five senses are pretty reliable.
Take so-called "psychic ability" on the other hand. For some strange, cosmic reason, psychic abilities just seem to come & go. Even those claiming to be psychic say that their "abilities" aren't 100% reliable. And, as I stated above, when so-called psychic abilities are tested in laboratory controlled conditions, success rates seem to dwindle down to chance. So basically, what good is so-called "psychic ability?" I've never heard of any so-called psychics warning about 9/11 before it happened. I've never seen a headline that says, "Psychic Wins Lottery Again." I've never even actually heard of a psychic successfully finding a missing child, but after a body is found they then swoop in and make connections between their supposed predictions and the actual evidence. And usually it's something as vague as "He'll be found near water."
It's obvious that there's nothing real to ESP, and people are just retrofitting the data to fit in with current predictions. That, and they make dozens of predictions and ignore the ones which come to nothing, but tout the one they got right as proof of their abilities. Keep throwing darts at a dartboard and eventually you'll get a bullseye. The "good" psychics convince people that they always get a bullseye while ignoring all the misses.
Take so-called "psychic ability" on the other hand. For some strange, cosmic reason, psychic abilities just seem to come & go. Even those claiming to be psychic say that their "abilities" aren't 100% reliable. And, as I stated above, when so-called psychic abilities are tested in laboratory controlled conditions, success rates seem to dwindle down to chance. So basically, what good is so-called "psychic ability?" I've never heard of any so-called psychics warning about 9/11 before it happened. I've never seen a headline that says, "Psychic Wins Lottery Again." I've never even actually heard of a psychic successfully finding a missing child, but after a body is found they then swoop in and make connections between their supposed predictions and the actual evidence. And usually it's something as vague as "He'll be found near water."
It's obvious that there's nothing real to ESP, and people are just retrofitting the data to fit in with current predictions. That, and they make dozens of predictions and ignore the ones which come to nothing, but tout the one they got right as proof of their abilities. Keep throwing darts at a dartboard and eventually you'll get a bullseye. The "good" psychics convince people that they always get a bullseye while ignoring all the misses.
Christian apologetics is the art of rolling a dog turd in sugar and selling it as a donut.
