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What Science Can't Explain by slysinzu(m): 11:54am On Jan 29, 2013
Science is powerful, but it cannot
explain everything.

Intuition
Whether we call it gut feelings, a ‘sixth sense,’ or
something else, we have all experienced intuition
at one time or another. Of course, gut feelings are
often wrong (how many times during aircraft
turbulence have you been sure your plane was
going down?), but they do seem to be right much
of the time. Psychologists note that people
subconsciously pick up information about the
world around us, leading us to seemingly sense or
know information without knowing exactly how
or why we know it. But cases of intuition are
difficult to prove or study, and psychology may
only be part of the answer.

Ghosts
From the Shakespeare play “MacBeth” to the
NBC show “Medium,” spirits of the dead have
long made an appearance in our culture and
folklore. Many people have reported seeing
apparitions of both shadowy strangers and
departed loved ones. Though definitive proof for
the existence of ghosts remains elusive, sincere
eyewitnesses continue to report seeing,
photographing, and even communicating with
ghosts. Ghost investigators hope to one day prove
that the dead can contact the living, providing a
final answer to the mystery.

Deja vu
Deja vu is a French phrase meaning ‘already
seen,’ referring to the distinct, puzzling, and
mysterious feeling of having experienced a
specific set of circumstances before. A woman
might walk into a building, for example, in a
foreign country she’d never visited, and sense
that the setting is eerily and intimately familiar.
Some attribute deja vu to psychic experiences or
unbidden glimpses of previous lives. As with
intuition (see #3), research into ,human
psychology can offer more naturalistic
explanations, but ultimately the cause and nature
of the phenomenon itself remains a mystery.
Near-Death Experiences and Life After
Death
People who were once near death have
sometimes reported various mystical experiences
(such as going into a tunnel and emerging in a
light, being reunited with loved ones, a sense of
peace, etc.) that may suggest an existence beyond
the grave. While such experiences are profound,
no one has returned with proof or verifiable
information from “beyond the grave.” Skeptics
suggest that the experiences are explainable as
natural and predictable hallucinations of a
traumatized brain, yet there is no way to know
with certainty what causes near-death
experiences, or if they truly are visions of “the
other side.”
Psychic powers and ESP
Psychic powers and extra-sensory perception
(ESP) rank among the top ten unexplained
phenomena if for no other reason than that belief
in them is so widespread. Many people believe
that intuition (see #3) is a form of psychic power,
a way of accessing arcane or special knowledge
about the world or the future. Researchers have
tested people who claim to have psychic powers,
though the results under controlled scientific
conditions have so far been negative or
ambiguous. Some have argued that psychic
powers cannot be tested, or for some reason
diminish in the presence of skeptics or scientists.
If this is true, science will never be able to prove
or disprove the existence of psychic powers.
The Body/Mind Connection
Medical science is only beginning to understand
the ways in which the mind influences the body.
The placebo effect, for example, demonstrates
that people can at times cause a relief in medical
symptoms or suffering by believing the cures to
be effective — whether they actually are or not.
Using processes only poorly understood, the
body’s ability to heal itself is far more amazing
than anything modern medicine could create.

Off recent a snake came out of a woman vagina in ghana
And also a woman who gave birth to a horse in Benin
I believe scientist have no explanation to make on that

http://www.livescience.com/11345-top-ten-
unexplained-phenomena.html
Re: What Science Can't Explain by Danex1988(m): 11:26pm On Feb 09, 2013
Many of the stuff you've mentioned is. Hearsay the rest should be classified. Under stuff science hasn't explaineD YET

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