Jun 23, 2016, 2:10 PM

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@Arkandel said in Do you believe in paranormal things?:

I will also add what I'm talking about now is actual, legitimate phenomena, not just things science hasn't gotten around to explaining just yet but which fit the overall directions of accepted natural laws.

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Oh, then no.

If there was evidence in the scientific community of the existence of an ultimate deity, for example, "accepted natural laws" would be okay with this. That's the nature of the Scientific Method. Hell, that's it's point.

To me, it's like you're asking if there are things in the Universe that we can never, ever understand no matter what, things that have no consistency or logic, things that come from truly no knowable source.

Of course not. Even cats try to work out their world. I like to think we're better than cats.

Things we took as phenomena 100 years ago are known scientific principles today. Identical twins seemingly having a psychic bond freaks us right the hell out, but I have zero doubt that this can be explained. How? I have no idea, because we haven't been able to explain it yet. We're not even sure it's a real phenomenon.

But we stopped torturing the mentally ill, we stopped blood letting, we accepted that there isn't a second Earth, all because we put the unknown through test after test after test until it became known. Hell, we just built a machine to detect gravitational bursts. That is so. Fucking. Cool. For the first time since an apple fell on a physicist, we have a chance to not just know gravity exists but know what it is. Gravity is moving from phenomeneon to tangible knowledge and that is an exciting thing to watch.

So no, I cannot believe in the unknowable, because we have centuries of evidence that this just. Doesn't. Work.