And so, the question for evolutionists: How do paranormal capabilities evolve?
For instance the little dog who knows precisely when his owner first starts to
come home (the featurette you see on German cable channel); how did the little dog evolve that capability?
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Dummkopf, isn't it obvious? The dog learned to tell time and could see by the clock when his master was due!
Seriously, we would first have to establish that paranormal abilities even exist before we start trying to determine how they might have evolved.
Oh, and animals' acute hearing is hardly a "paranormal" ability, though it is pretty cool to see it demonstrated. My late companion's dog used to jump up and run to the door about 30 seconds before I got there, simply because she could recognize the exact sound of MY car pulling up and its door closing as distinctly different from everyone else's nearby. But on those occasions when I was on foot or parked too far away from the door, she hadn't a clue that I was arriving.
~David D.G.
If there were any evidence of paranomral capabilities, they would have evolved exactly the same way as every other adaptation.
Ignoring the fact that paranomral capablities have NEVER been proven, medved still isn't saying anything profound or challenging.
I'm sorry, I didn't catch that, I was using my Circadian rhythms to figure out when to go to sleep and when to eat stuff, since they work on a 24-hour clock.
Quite the contrary: Evolution proves that so-called "paranormal" phenomena don't exist.
Telepathy for example would be extremely handy for a pack of wolves. They could communicate extremely effectively while encircling their prey. This would be an enormous evolutionary advantage.
As wolves don't use "telepathy", but communicate with completely physical means (mostly sound), we can safely assume that telepathy does not exist.
Ah, and the "paranormal" doggie: Don't believe everything you see on cable channel. TV doesn't want to provide information, it wants to provide entertainment. Sells much better.
"For instance the little dog who knows precisely when his owner first starts to
come home (the featurette you see on German cable channel); how did the little dog evolve that capability?"
It's been debunked. Three words: Body Clock. Routine.
Next question.
Also enhanced hearing abilities. To say nothing of olfactory organs. The most nasally-advanced human being can detect one part in a billion. Most breeds of dogs can detect one part in a trillion. Wolves, Spaniels, Bloodhounds etc can detect one part in a quadrillion . Ergo, spaniels used as drug-detection dogs by police, customs etc. QED.
"And so, the question for evolutionists: How do paranormal capabilities evolve?"
The TV series "The Tomorrow People" and "The Champions" (Ye gods, I'm really showing my age here! XP ) are not documentaries. On the other hand...:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&v=4IMOSN0WYvg
Prince, the dog that says 'Sausages'. X3
(See? Before even LOLcats even existed!)
“And so, the question for evolutionists: How do paranormal capabilities evolve?”
I’m gonna guess the same process by which we assign agency to inanimate objects (leading us to bargain with the car and swear at the printer), leads us to think anything we can’t explain is Woo.
“For instance the little dog who knows precisely when his owner first starts to
come home (the featurette you see on German cable channel); how did the little dog evolve that capability?”
How would you go about isolating this trait from a simple ability to tell time?
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