A friend and I are arguing over ghosts.
I think it’s akin to astrology, homeopathy and palm reading. He says there’s “convincing “ evidence for its existence. He also took up company time to make a meme to illustrate our relative positions. (See image)
(To be fair, I’m also on the clock right now)
What do you think?
Are you able to provide specific evidence that ghosts AREN’T real?
Never imaged
Never measured
Never captured
Never seen by people without mental health issues.
Can you prove there isn’t a teapot in orbit around the moon?
Russell’s Teapot orbits the sun. There isn’t room in this solar system for two orbiting teapots.
Prove it!
There might be for all I know!
Their point is that one could come up with a billion hypotheticals for what might theoretically exist, because we cannot disprove it. If we spent as much time humming and hawing whether each one actually does exist as we do for ghosts, souls, gods, Big Foot etc., then you won’t be doing anything else in life.
That’s why it’s a typical position to just say that they don’t exist until proven otherwise.
Or in the more general sense, this is Occam’s Razor: If there’s multiple possible explanations for something, then one should assume the simplest explanation until proven otherwise.
And if you hear a door slamming shut in your house, then wind is a much simpler explanation than ghosts.
yes.
the utter lack of convincing evidence that ghosts are real is evidence that ghosts are not real.
An utter lack of evidence thus far
gee…it’s only been thousands of years
and I’m sure you’re the one who is going to find the evidence.
it is not as though humanity hasn’t been looking for evidence of the supernatural since… well… probably before hommo sapiens were a thing…