James Randi Lecture @ Caltech -a word on PHDs

I thinks that's pretty good. His theory does seem to fit to those who have PhDs today, lol.

I've only seen a glimpse of an article about this on-line. With no more information then that I think it is the parents or other close family member.

Its the same story as the 'balloon boy'.

Yeah, but it's just a speculation, it needs a scientific research...

Hope Prof Randi take it as a serious issu and give us his ipinion...

There needs to be more of these type of videos on Youtube.

You wouldn't know how much I agree.

This is fantastic. One thing struck me as I watched the beginning. J.Randi said that "we should not assume things must be supernatural, paranormal, etc. if we do not have an explination for it". Isn't that what supernatural is? Once you have the explanation it becomes science the whole point of supernatural is that you can't explain it. So just because something has an explanation does that make it any less incredible than if you couldn't explain it?

The thing is when you put an explanation on something and label it as science people get upset because you have ruined the mysticism. But have you really because no matter how well you can prove how something happens you can never really prove why it happens. That's why I never understood why there was such issues between science and religion and science and the supernatural. Just by explaining how something works doesn't really take anything away from it.

No, supernatural means that something is not natural, it is beyond natural explaination.

because those words (supernatural etc) give it a name, and a reason for it to be taken seriously, its much better to call it an unknown, many are too quick to classify something without looking further into it.

Randi's brain never fails to excite me, he's so funny and at the same time knows so much!