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Dowsing, Faith, and Reason (Divining Rods, Pendulums, Radiasthesia, Rhabdomancy, Water Witching)

Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World

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Do You Know if You're Doing Dowsing?

Dowsing has been so systematically studied as one might think, partly obviously because science dismisses that operation. And the question is, what's responsible for that? Is it random chance or is it in on the skeptical view? Or is there a psychic signal that you're picking up subconsciously and then is being manifested through your hands via the idiomotor effect? It seems to me the, the way to find an answer to that would be to say, well, what's the data on reliability? If it's if it's justrandom chance, then finding things shouldn't exceed random chance. But if you can find things more reliably than random chance, then that suggests there's some

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