I think it's cool that the same tool as used by these 'genuine' diviners was also used in tracking criminals and heretics in Southern France in the 17th century Dowsing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
and they new a thing or two. when was the last time you heard of an innocent witch getting burnt at the stake?
Stick them in a pool of water, if they float then they're a witch and burn them at the stake. If they sink and drown then they're innocent!
and I'm guessing you didn't mean he changed back eventually - but just improved having changed to a newt?
Of course our bodies continually experience forces of which we are not aware. Radio waves, microwaves, magnetic fields, ultrasonic waves, micro-organisms, radioactive materials, and many more, are apparently undetectable by human senses but permeate our bodies the whole time. These forces, a mystery to our ancestors, are however detectable today by instruments which humans have devised. I can believe that there may be further forces which have not yet been detected and measured, but which can be in principle and will be in the future. Species like salmon and penguins may well be able to detect and use forces known to science, or even not yet known. What I cannot believe is that there are supernatural forces which "exist" in some sense; which are undetectable in principle by any present or future scientific means; and yet which have gross effects in the real word.
Quite right. Divination has however been scientifically examined repeatedly and in depth, and the anecdotes have never been found to hold water (to coin a phrase). In this case no-one is 'pretending observations are rubbish without examining them' - rather, they are discovering observations to be rubbish after careful scrutiny.
Peter With what tools was Divining examined by scientists? Do you agree that there is a possibility that the tools used were not sensitive enough, or even the right sort of tool to detect forces which are at present unknown?
