@Kroney
I'm saying I, and indeed others on here have as well, have already attempted to explain away phenomena with some kind of rational basis and have come up empty. Please, if you would read through my previous post on page one or two and give me a scientific explanation, I would like to hear it.

That I can't give a rival explanation of my own for a story isn't sufficient to mean that it'd be illegitimate to doubt other explanations. (Roughly: I don't know what the 4003^rd digit in the decimal expnasion of pi is, but I can say with reasonable certainty that it's not "w" and that anyone who thinks it might be is wrong.

What I don't think I'd be entitled to do is to suggest that, actually, this or that is the case - shooting from the hip like that is asking for trouble. Nevertheless, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence - more than simply a lack of ordinary evidence - and I've not seen any of that.

The issue I take exception to is people saying "ghosts don't exist, you're wrong. it was the cat." Doesn't help anybody.

You're kind of right: it often doesn't help. But, again, even allowing for the argument that there is a possibility that ghosts exist - that is, that there's independent evidence for them - it would still remain the case that, for any phenomenon, a mundane explanation wholly rooted in the world of medium-sized solid objects would be far more likely to be correct.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Mon 7 Jul 2008, 12:40, Reply)