Posted: Mar 04, 2010 7:52 am
-Sylvan-Shadow- wrote:that nobody really seems to know much about.
Okay first things first, I am an atheist, but I do believe in spirits or whatever you want to call them. Many other Atheist's have called me "ignorant", "stupid" for believing in such things, but I simply cannot dismiss them as "a figment of the human imagination". There are simply too many sightings, too much video footage and other documented encounters for me to say they don't exist. I like to keep an open mind on these types of things.
I know a great percentage of them are fake, but what about the rest.
Is it possible these "things" can be explained through science if given proper research?
I fear that in many ways they already have been explained by modern science, it's just that science cannot ever rule out every single phenomenon so a public perception continues to exist that there are more reports that haven't been addressed by science. More than anything else, these are effectively random phenomena, like UFO's, and are therefore difficult to do experiments on. However, there have been numerous cases where scientists have tried to detect these sources, and they have never validated anything worth enquiry.
For me, if you believe that there are such thing as ghosts and spirits, then you really need to consider why this should be. There must be some kind of mechanism operating here that produces these ghosts. Are they human spirits? If so, how is it that there are not billions of ghosts we bump into all the time? There should be a lot more sightings. What are these things made of? Where do they go when they are not visible to people?
My experience leads me to think that they are the products of an imaginative mind seeing patterns that are not there.