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Re: Feng Shui

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I study cognitive science so I believe that science will one day be able to explain mysterious things like feng shui. However, it will happen through careful inquiry in established institutions, not from odd ramblings tinged with financial conflicts.

You make an interesting point that science may one day be able to explain feng shui. However, fend shui has been practiced by millions for centuries, as someone else pointed out. Why is it necessary that science be able to explain feng shui in order for us to accept it as real? It wasn't so long ago that accupuncture was scorned as a fraudulent practice, today it appears to have become quite an acceptable alternative to conventional medicine, perhaps even the only solution in some cases - this with or without scientic explanation.

Roger Penrose proved that the big bang contained a singularity, yet the big bang seems to remain in most peoples' minds an ambiguous uncertainty. Steven Hawking has given us a scientic basis for black holes, yet I would venture to say that many people do not think black holes exist, anyway. So it goes.


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