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Can you prove demons with the scientific methods?
Chupacabras drink goat blood too.With se'irs or billygoats the sorcerers drink their blood, so that they can appear to the victim like devils.
Suppose a demon came and did all the things you see in The Exorcist, or Insidious, or Constantine - why wouldn't that constitute scientific evidence for demons?No, no more than you could prove God with the scientific method. The supernatural is beyond the purview of science.
Because science is myopic.Suppose a demon came and did all the things you see in The Exorcist, or Insidious, or Constantine - why wouldn't that constitute scientific evidence for demons?
Suppose a demon came and did all the things you see in The Exorcist, or Insidious, or Constantine - why wouldn't that constitute scientific evidence for demons?
I don't think being supernatural means it can't be proven or disproven by science (unless you redefine your terms to the point of meaninglessness).
Do you think demons are just going to sit there and let themselves be interviewed, or jump through hoops while a shrewdness of scientists makes observations?On a more serious note... If demons did exist I do think it should be possible to provide scientific support for their existence because they are often said to influence people in ways that can be observed and quantified (flying through the air, speaking in unknown languages, etc..). Experimentation should be possible. People who believe in demons yet say "no" are probably just worried that they wouldn't be able to provide any scientific evidence so they just say it's impossible.
The evil item (person, shark, ferret, housecat, whatever) is placed in the sample chamber where it is allowed to "outgas". The evil coming off the being will be collected into a secondary collection sample chamber and passed through the FID. The reason a "flame ionization detector" is used is because demons respond quite naturally to flame. It has to be modified in order to provide a hot enough flame (similar to the fires of hell) to create a measurable signal in FID.
The signal can then be integrated and the relative strength of the demon assessed.
So remember, when you are looking for good equipment for demonological studies, go to your nearest Fisher Scientific catalog and order the Perkin Elmer Demonscope 300R!
You can put people under observation. If the supposed demons never act up when people are under observation then you have a found a cure (scientific observation) to some of the negative effects of demon possession so it might be worth trying*. Christians often say that demons act up during exorcisms as well. You can always have some scientists on hand for the exorcism.
* Don't want the demons pushing you around? Just have a scientists observe you.
BingoDemons aren't part of the natural world. They can't be studied by science. If they could, there would be nothing supernatural about them.
You're right, how could I have forgotten my course in Demonology 101...Evidence for the existence of demons is something every scientist is trained to reject, anyway.
Err, every scientist worth his salt freely admits that. The nature of science means that there are limits to it. It remains to be seen if anything lies beyond those limits - but the limits aren't what you think they are.Proving the supernatural would be akin to admitting that there is something beyond what science can know. No scientist with a reputation to maintain would even attempt this.
I'm not a scientist, but it seems to me that if a demon manifested itself and did some things, scientists would view him as an extraterrestrial, not a fallen angel.Bingo
Really? If I saw a girl's face morph into this:I'm not a scientist, but it seems to me that if a demon manifested itself and did some things, scientists would view him as an extraterrestrial, not a fallen angel.
Are you a scientist?I'm not a scientist, but it seems to me that if a demon manifested itself and did some things, scientists would view him as an extraterrestrial, not a fallen angel.Really? If I saw a girl's face morph into this:
I'd think 'demon' before I thought 'alien'.
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