My brother reckons he saw one when he was about 10. He saw a nice car, walked up to the window to peep in and someone "as white as snow" turned their head and made eye contact. He about **** himself and legged it. Probably just someone having a doze or something and him imagining things. 2+2=5 job.
BCC is correct. (Apart from Randy, it's the James Randi Educational Foundation.) The burden of proof is on those making ridiculous statements. The human brain is a miraculous thing, but it is the most unreliable organ in the human body. It constantly tricks you. It's no coincidence that "ghosts" only appear to those who believe. For any folk who are unsure, I can recommend the book Paranormality (Why we see what isn't there) by Professor Richard Wiseman. In fact I recommend that book to anyone. It's funny and very insightful.
That's the same argument all people of faith have used to buttress their own assumptions since the dawn of time. It's the same faulty logic that allows smart people to control gullible people, why today mediums fill out theatre halls full of middle aged women. Then science came along and developed the ideas of positivism and falsifiability. I'm not saying you're wrong, just that your approach is unscientific. Which is why rational people don't believe in the supernatural or Jesus or whatever else.
Many have had the conversation. Some very bright ones still investigate events described by some as paranormal.
Good on them. I look forward to reading their peer reviewed publications and seeing them receive a million dollars from JREF.
They've published peer review articles, my point isn't that ghosts do or don't exist, simply that scientists would not make the statement you made. Science does't work like that.
But again, that's not a good thing to say. Why can't somebody believe in the supernatural and be rational? If the most rational explaination was 'I can't tell you what I just saw', and plenty of scientists have said that over the years, then what do you do then? I've researched the subject for years and I can tell you that some of the most rational people in the world have been/ are believers in ghosts, or aliens. Albert Einstein, Buzz Aldrin, Kurt Cobain (when he wasn't high), Jimi Hendrix (actually, a lot of musicians have attributed the supernatural, UFO's in particular, as inspiration for their songwriting), John Lennon, Muhammad Ali, Jimmy Carter and Stephen Hawking; all have come out at some point and acknowledged that they have seen or had some sort of paranormal experience. As for ghosts being a human construct...what? It's typical of humanity to assume that something that we can't explain or can't have created can't exist because we weren't responsible.
