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Subject: Re: PSI:  Yes I see it / No you don't
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> Evolution theory predicts that if it exists and is useful it would be
> the norm as those with the ability would outbreed those without.
> 
> In short, every psi ability I have heard described would be
> sufficiently useful in the paleolithic world that a person who claims
> psi exists must explain why it is not the norm, like sight and
> hearing.  This is in addition to performing repeatable experiments
> which don't fail to work in the presence of doubters but which are
> claimed to work in the claiment's own lab, provided there are only
> true believers present...

There are several answers to this besides the one which the author
suggests:

(1) Evolutionary theory is wrong.

(2) Evolutionary theory is correct and the race is gradually
	evolving and maybe in the next million years psi ability
	will become the norm.

(3) Maybe everybody has it now, but not everybody knows how to
	use it, just as everybody has a brain but not everybody is 
	an Einstein, and as everybody has a body, but not everybody
	in a concert pianist or an Olympic athlete.

As far as I'm concerned you can accept the author's original
thesis or any of the above or accept anything else as being
a better explanation.

Speaking for myself, I have had experiences that might be termed
psi, and have experienced them in conjunction with a group of
other people. However, I do not trot these experiences out to
satisfy curiosity or try to prove anything. These abilities are
meant to help oneself and others and are NOT to be used to prove
their own existence.