2004 was supposed to have been quite a year. Osama bin Laden was said to have died, Colin Powell was elected America's first black president and the Hoover Dam collapsed.Well, no. But such were predictions from psychics collected by Skeptical Inquirer, the magazine of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal. CSICOP is among groups led by atheistic philosopher Paul Kurtz that pooh-pooh both parapsychology and mainstream religion.If past predictions from psychics had come true, by now we'd be zipping around in cheap solar-powered cars on Earth, or traveling to Saturn, or America would be reeling from inundation of the Atlantic Coast or from a nuclear attack launched by Russia.

With the Bible, too, it's worthwhile for believers to occasionally review the perennial mistaken predictions of prophecy-preachers to help distinguish between what the Scriptures teach and what's non-biblical speculation.Instead of targeting the usual psychics and biblical fantasists, however, one Skeptical Inquirer attack on "futurism" said scientists, too, have embarrassing misses. The article was written by Richard L. Miller, psychology chairman at the University of Nebraska at Kearney, and Emily Balcetis, a doctoral student in social psychology at Cornell in New York state.

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Thats about right.So much for pschics.

Actually the Prediction of Prof. Paul Ehrlic's of "Hundreds of Millions "dieing because of population growth did come partially true. Between the AIDS virus and lack of food , and The Ethnic cleansing of some of the African Nations, Millions of people have died. And the statement "It's the lust for certainty that creates the market for uncertain Predictions" if true is rather sad.

We pride our selves as being creative thinkers who look "Out side the Box" for ideas and Inspiration. To have the future set in advance would keep us from striving to change the future for the better. Or so I would think!

I'm personally not surprised at all. Alot of psychics just do that so they can become famous. Not saying all psychics are frauds, alot have done some unexplainable things.

either they were false, or they had true prophecies that were corrected before they had a chance to be fullfilled

thats what prophecies are, predictions of events that the outcome can be changed to prevent it

plus, if these things were predicted, people could have secretly done things to prevent them from happening

meh, but my overall opinion is: those psychics were wrong, and they weren't giving prophecies either...they may have been smoking too many herbs or something...maybe too much coffee and grape sodie

Coffe & Grape Soda?
yuck!

well of course not together, but seperatly..mwuahaha, they must have had irish cream coffee..okay i'm done with my puns mwuahahaha!

Well, yeah, sorta like if I predict that a million cats will die from mistemper, and the neighbor's cat gets run over by a car . . . that is about how right Ehrlic has been in his predictions. Lots of people died, sure enough.

Ah come , cut me some slack Larry. Us old forks got to sick together!LOLS