Science is in no way incompatible with saying "there are wierd ass things we don't understand" as long as those things are still being investigated
Exactly! I really wish some of those pro-evolution people would come out and say this during an interview. The problem with something like Intelligent Design is that it goes from "we don't understand this" to "and because we don't understand this, it must be the work of some invisible designer". That's the same sort of logic that lead to Apollo's chariot.
Now, on the topic of ghosts... I think they are "real", in a certain sense. Not in the sense that there are invisible spirits walking around, but "real" in the sense that people who see them might actually see them. My theory is that these are are sensory perceptions that originate from inside the brain instead of through our sensory organs. Because they pass through the same processing centers that ordinary senses do, there is no way to distinguish them from Real sensory input.
Of course, I suppose it's entirely possible that these things are Real, and not "real", but I'd need to see more evidence before I believed that.
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Date: 2006-02-10 07:06 pm (UTC)Exactly! I really wish some of those pro-evolution people would come out and say this during an interview. The problem with something like Intelligent Design is that it goes from "we don't understand this" to "and because we don't understand this, it must be the work of some invisible designer". That's the same sort of logic that lead to Apollo's chariot.
Now, on the topic of ghosts... I think they are "real", in a certain sense. Not in the sense that there are invisible spirits walking around, but "real" in the sense that people who see them might actually see them. My theory is that these are are sensory perceptions that originate from inside the brain instead of through our sensory organs. Because they pass through the same processing centers that ordinary senses do, there is no way to distinguish them from Real sensory input.
Of course, I suppose it's entirely possible that these things are Real, and not "real", but I'd need to see more evidence before I believed that.