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Feb 17, 2013

Not so super…superstition


superstition
What we know
Science has attempted to offer elucidation of everything; the gender of an unborn child, estimate of earthquake strength, and prediction of hailstorms to prospects of success; it even explicates the rise of criminality based on statistical calculation. Events that inspire awe and amazement may arouse curiosity about their causality, and when it fails to surface, attributions that by pass science become rampant. When there is no physical process linking the cause an event, it classically qualifies superstition (according to the evolved lot of humans). When you know why it happens; its science, when you don’t, its superstition.