Thread: Water/ gold divining, RU a sceptic, or believer?

I’m assuming Mr Biggs is the richest man in Australia right?

As for water diving out in the open looking for an underground water source - sceptic. Using 2 wire coat hangers to find an old galvanised water pipe in the backyard - believer, as I’ve seen it and done it. We tried for a long time to find a pipe and a friend bent up 2 coat hangers - we all had a laugh, but after 10 minutes he said to dig around 15 meters from where we thought it was and showed me what he did - I think it is something to do with magnetism when doing this - the location was spot on.

It never works under controlled conditions.

Though diviners will continue to be hired by believers in such powers, and wells will be dug with great precision on spots located by forked-stick folks, these water supplies will not prove that dowsing works. They will only prove that there is a great deal of water down under the earth, and we do not need silly folks wiggling sticks to tell us that.
Divining is a delusion, and must be recognised as such.

Australian Skeptics Divining Test – Australian Skeptics Inc

As above. Somewhere I have an article from the NSW Irrigation Commission, published in the 1940s, which analysed results from bores drilled on divined sites and those drilled without divining, and concluded that water divining simply did not work.Screenshot_2021-02-08_07-59-42.png

Edit: Found it, and added the key table from this paper.

I'm a total skeptic.

It has been completely and utterly debunked many times over.

I think I have heard every good story on or by dowsers.

I do not want to hear another one here.

Or I'll start putting up hi clone stories.

I'll assume that you all believe that dogs can't smell cancer, or old wives knew nothing about childbirth, right? Science proves everything, right? Talk about closed minds. Even the title of this thread is off. Why do I have to be one thing or the other? Nobody can prove to me that divining works, but, equally, nobody can prove, no shadow of a doubt, that it doesn't. It's like believing in God ffs. Can you PROVE it one way or the other? I'll bet the answer is NO.
Why put down a belief that is contrary to yours? Wars revolve around thinking like this, and in fact most wars RELY on thinking like this.
Live and let live, people. The other person is just as likely to be right as you are.
For the record, I have seen dowsing "work". Can I prove it? No. Does that make me believe in it absolutely? No. Was what I saw fake? Possibly. I don't know, and neither do you.

Originally Posted by Tins

I'll assume that you all believe that dogs can't smell cancer, or old wives knew nothing about childbirth, right? Science proves everything, right? Talk about closed minds. Even the title of this thread is off. Why do I have to be one thing or the other? Nobody can prove to me that divining works, but, equally, nobody can prove, no shadow of a doubt, that it doesn't. It's like believing in God ffs. Can you PROVE it one way or the other? I'll bet the answer is NO.
Why put down a belief that is contrary to yours? Wars revolve around thinking like this, and in fact most wars RELY on thinking like this.
Live and let live, people. The other person is just as likely to be right as you are.
For the record, I have seen dowsing "work". Can I prove it? No. Does that make me believe in it absolutely? No. Was what I saw fake? Possibly. I don't know, and neither do you.

Come on mate…

Prove the Tooth Fairy isn’t real then, or Santa the DHL prezzies deliverer.

Divining/Dowsing in this country is almost guaranteed to strike water…. Etc.

Seeing evidence to support a case is just that.

Correlation isn’t Causation.

Next you’ll tell me naturopaths and healers in this country are real doctors.

Originally Posted by Tombie

Come on mate…

Prove the Tooth Fairy isn’t real then, or Santa the DHL prezzies deliverer.

Divining/Dowsing in this country is almost guaranteed to strike water…. Etc.

Seeing evidence to support a case is just that.

Correlation isn’t Causation.

Took you for having an open mind, Mike. Guess I was wrong. I didn't say I believe. I merely said you, or I, cannot prove it one way or another.

Bringing in the tooth fairy or santa is merely pathetic deflection. I expected better from you.