How would you explain to a Darwinist the adaptational advantages of a paranormal ability to bend spoons?
Hardened Darwinists are like fundamentalist Christians or brainwashed Stalinists – they regard anything that threatens their enclosed belief system as a heresy spawned by the devil. So I would not attempt to use logic with a Darwinist. To a friendly journalist, on the other hand, I would point out that metal-bending, while generally trivial, has been of terrific import in the adaptation of one particular example of the species – me! So in a solipsistic universe, one created for my own personal benefit, metal-bending assumes a central function… For the rest of the world, it is an entertaining diversion, and there arent enough of those. It is also, in the expression of Professor John Hasted of the University of London, “important because it cannot be explained”. Wasn’t Ken Russell making a film of your life? Whatever happened to it? It got made, it got released in 60 countries or more, it sold tens of thousands of copies in Britain alone, and I get eMail daily from people win the Far E
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