The Peranormal (Ghosts)

[Muninn]

There is so much in the world beyond what we 'know'. To dismiss such things because there is no 'scientific' backing to it would be silly.

It's not so much a scientific backing, as I don't always put too much credibility in every scientific endevour or discovery, it's more a logical problem. It simply doesn't seem logical to me that there would be an afterlife, and thus ghosts.

[AvestheFox]

its acceptable that anybody would not believe in such things as ghosts... I've yet to even experience my own haunting, but I still like to believe... also I like a good ghost story to keep my night going ^^

[IceDragon]

There is so much in the world beyond what we 'know'. To dismiss such things because there is no 'scientific' backing to it would be silly.

I don't think Intelligent Design should be taught in classes.

[Gizensha]

There is so much in the world beyond what we 'know'. To dismiss such things because there is no 'scientific' backing to it would be silly.

I don't think Intelligent Design should be taught in classes.

There is a difference between dismissing something because of lack of scientific backing and stating something as fact despite scientific evidence to the contrary.

And besides - ID is just a modern variant of the analogy of the watchmaker, which is taught in philosophy classes (along with the arguements against it, and counterarguements). You know, the whole "If a reasonably intelligent man with no knowledge of watches was to find a watch, and was to study it, and take it apart and discover the complexity of the mechanism, would he assume that it came about by chance or that it had been designed? He would surely conclude that it was made by a designing force. Why, then, assume that the universe, which is far more complicated than a watch, came about by chance." thing.

The basic arguement against it is, obviously, that while a watch has an overall purpose which is easy to deduce, the universe does not.

The only reason anyone has any objections to ID being taught is this ideotic lobby for it being taught in science class. ID is a variant of The analogy of the Watchmaker, which is already taught in philosophy class.

[Caigan]

There is so much in the world beyond what we 'know'. To dismiss such things because there is no 'scientific' backing to it would be silly.

I don't think Intelligent Design should be taught in classes.

Don't wanna derail, but ID would be suited for, say, a philosophy class, not a science class. =)

[Gizensha]

There is so much in the world beyond what we 'know'. To dismiss such things because there is no 'scientific' backing to it would be silly.

I don't think Intelligent Design should be taught in classes.

Don't wanna derail, but ID would be suited for, say, a philosophy class, not a science class. =)

Didn't I already derrail this thread saying the exact same thing?

[Arloest]

I forgot to post my pic! Years ago, we had a cat named Pumpkin. I think she died sometime during the early 90s. Instead of putting her in a pet cemetary, we buried her in the side yard.

Years later, this picture was taken Christmas Eve, 2004. There's a little something off-center to the right that looks like a GHOST CAT! I would normally dismiss this as a camera glitch, but the fact that the thing is sitting on almost the exact spot where Pumpkin was buried... seems weird.
(For those who didn't know, the white stuff is snow).

[AvestheFox]

great snap, Arloest!I'd submit it to that website I posed in the starting post... there's a few good researchers who'd love to get their paws on that image ^^

here are images of animal spirits.. cats, dogs... I had seen a small library of image concerning a cat that had died... te images were the simple focus of several over cats (living) but there was anothe cat on that roll that simply could not had been there.... Wish I can find them.. I'll have to ask my buddies at Ghost study if they've seen them anywhere