Are there people out there with special powers?
It depends what you mean by “special”. A power or talent doesn’t have to be of comic book proportions to be special. Many sportsmen and women can perform feats of strength and endurance which appear superhuman to the rest of us. And these are developing all the time- remember the first four minute mile? It would have been unthinkable a few hundred years previously. Many scientists have invented wonderful things which would have been perceived as “magic” a few years previously. There are wonderful public speakers who seem able to hold their listeners with almost hypnotic power, persuading them (for better or worse) to commit to cause A, B or C. These people may not be able to vanish from sight or have X-ray vision, but I don’t think you could argue that they don’t have “special powers” just as fabulous as those in the fictional comic books they often inspire.
