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May 21, 2009 11:23 AM

Via, naturally, The Anomalist, comes this short essay from Greg Bishop over on UFOMystic. Here’s a bit of it:

Things that “donʼt make sense” force us to re-examine what we define as “possible.” In this sense, the weird sometimes draws us to new concepts and theories, leading us by our curiosity. As an example: Matter in the universe is not moving at a steady rate, which would be the case if the theory of the Big Bang was accurate. This forced astronomers to try and account for the discrepancy, which led to the theory of “dark matter” (and “dark energy”) which canʼt be seen or measured as yet, but are inferred from their observed effects. Of course, the Big Bang theory is constantly underdebate as well.

Unlike stars, galaxies and nebulae, UFOs, ghosts and ESP effects canʼt be observed by everyone on demand, but if we trust at least some observers, there is something happening that occurs with some regularity. Just because something is currently unexplained does not mean that it is unreal.

Very true, Greg. Very true.

(Obviously, we could easily add bigfoot into Greg’s list, which is why I’m quoting it.)

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