In all disasters without exception, there are always people who have escaped disaster. So it is with the Tu-134, which crashed near Petrozavodsk - several leading programmers of a large local company were supposed to fly on an ill-fated flight on vacation, but did not fly - at the last moment, the flight connection failed
We are not talking about those who were saved directly. This is, of course, a miracle. But not all. After all, there are still people who survived simply because they did not participate in the disaster. For some reason, they didn't hit it. Although they should have.
For people far from scientific theories, religion is enough to explain the phenomenon of miraculous salvation. Whoever believes in God also believes in the so-called guardian angels. It seems that every person has them. And not one at a time. Religion explains with the help of guardian angels any sudden luck.
What do the materialists think? They are surprisingly hesitant. That is, they are not sure that some higher powers do not exist.
“The situation cannot be clarified if we consider the cases of miraculous salvation separately,” says Valery Isakov, Ph. D. in mechanics and mathematics and leader of a small group of researchers of anomalous phenomena. - It's another matter to evaluate a large array of events - those when people managed to avoid catastrophes or disasters from the point of view of mathematical statistics. We tried to do this. There is a statistical anomaly that can be interpreted in many ways, including from the point of view of religion.
Back in 1958, American sociologist James Staunton analyzed more than 200 train wrecks in the previous 30 years. It turned out that trains that ended their journey tragically were, on average, filled by 61% of the maximum possible number of passengers. At the same time, at least 76% went on successful trips. These 15% give rise to suspicion of the existence of higher powers.
Russian mathematicians also used the data of the famous American mystic writer Stephen King, who drew attention to the plane crashes. After one of the plane crashes on the Denver - Boston (USA) route, King called the airline, and he was told that 16 people did not fly the fatal flight - they returned their tickets. Three more were late. Usually, according to statistics, no more than 10 people refused to travel, and latecomers are quite rare.
According to Western statistics, which were used by Russian scientists, over the past 20 years, flights that ended in disasters were abandoned by 18% more passengers than safe ones.
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King himself proposed an almost materialistic hypothesis. They say, sometimes a "subconscious signaling system" awakens in people. The one that at first was well developed among our distant ancestors and did not allow to fall into the clutches of saber-toothed tigers, and then withered out of being unnecessary. The remnants of this system sometimes appear in the form of intuition.