"the modern scientific worldview is inherently flawed"

[Rogan Josh]

Yes, this is the problem that some really distant galaxies are accelerating away from us, which is at odds with the big bang (they should be accelerating towards us). Throwing away frame invariance is sort of like throwing away the baby with the bathwater.

If it comes to a choice, it would be better to throw away the big bang (but it won't go that far).

For a reveiw, see http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0305457

[pchang]

throw away the big bang

I have no problem with throwing away the big bang.

[JohnT]

Originally posted by Giant_Squid
It is unfortunate that as soon as a "taboo" subject like the "paranormal" (and one has to remember that everything, including the rising and setting of the sun, was considered paranormal before we discovered there were perfectly normal scientific theories to explain it) is brought in, the entire field is dismissed as "New Age" and anything proven by it or theorized by it is completely ignored. In my opinion, that makes about as much sense as dismissing everything relating to electromagnetism just because Alex Chiu has stupid theories about Immortality Magnets.

Well, one of the reasons why people dismiss the paranormal is the complete lack of evidence for it. The Rhine Institute at Duke University used to fund (for quite a while - 4 decades at least) a center for the studies of the paranormal and got... nowhere. Oh, they coined a few words but after decades the amount of replicable evidence they gathered was nil. Iirc, Duke disbanded (or cut off funding) for the Rhine Institute, though the institute is still out there.

[Giant_Squid]

I disagree that no evidence has been collected. Evidence has been found, and found en masse, but has generally been rationalized away or ignored. At the risk of just throwing links at you

http://teresi.us/html/writing/psi.html

http://www.dina.kvl.dk/~abraham/psy1.html

http://exn.ca/starwars/parapsychology.cfm

http://www.noveltynet.org/content/paranormal/www.parascope.com/articles/0397/pk03.htm

Are the data convincing? Depends who you're trying to convince

[Urban Ranger]

The problem with any of this parapsych evidence is their experiments were not done in the same strict conditions as, say, biology. Then there is the small problem of the so called psychics cheating during these experiments.