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during the dark ages and before that?lol
And the evidence was still there. Hence why people finally came around to belief.
Yes. That is why they were discovered.
No..the folks suspected something was causing illnesses..that is NOT compelling evidence..after awhile the evidence was found,THEN it became compelling
The evidence is always there, it is just a matter of "coming out" of denial.
Coming around to a belief you ridiculed someone for is hardly progress. It is a waste of time, because during the time of "not believing," even more progress could have been made.
Yes, the evidence was still there during the dark ages. We simply lacked the tools to discover where the evidence lead. If you have a tool for detecting ghosts and you can find evidence I will find them credible. Until then they are another idea from our past that evidence does not support. We have a great many ideas our ancestors held as true that we do not.
Fine. Show me a ghost and I'll believe they exist.
vapors,bad smells and bad air were the suspects of the day..why do you think that people carried a pocket of sweet smelling flowers to ward off the plague?
Miasma theory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The entire existence of spirits, or anything for that matter, is not predicated on your personal belief. Or, really anyone's personal belief. Things exist because they exist.
vapors,bad smells and bad air were the suspects of the day..why do you think that people carried a pocket of sweet smelling flowers to ward off the plague?
Miasma theory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
All new ideas must combat disbelief and rightfully so. Otherwise we would believe any old thing that someone made a case for. It is only those things which have compelling evidence we should be swayed by.
The existence of spirits, or anything for that matter, is not predicated on your personal belief.
Doubt is healthy. Dogged incredulity, scoffing, attacking and ridicule is not, and in academia doubt among scientists tends to be concentrated in direct relation to the acceptance of a standard. Acceptance does not mean truth.
Asch conformity experiments - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I just said that.
They exist because they exist.
And yet academics are human and subject to the exact same foibles as the rest of us. Scoffing, attacking, and ridicule are the name of the game in Science from what I have heard. It is a rough profession and ideas and people have to stand up to the challenge to be taken seriously.
Yes, and I flipped it right back around on you!
I hope you can see my point.
If they (ghosts) exist, please demonstrate their existence with evidence.
Fine. Show me a ghost and I'll believe they exist.
The entire existence of spirits, or anything for that matter, is not predicated on your personal belief. Or, really anyone's personal belief. Things exist because they exist.
And, you still missed my point: no matter what you choose as evidence, things exist because they exist. If you do not believe, or believe there is not sufficient evidence, that is your prerogative. It doesn't negate the existence of something because you are not intellectually satisfied with the evidence of existence.
As far as "evidence," it begs the question of 1) what is evidence you seek, 2) how much is enough, 3) from what source, 4) the frequency needed to confirm the result as evidence. These circumstances depend on the person, which brings us back to MY point that neither you or anyone else predicates the existence of something because you believe or doubt its existence.
Taking the encounter of Christ and Thomas as a purely philosophical metaphor, the encounter showed that even if someone has all of the evidence right in from of their face, people will still find a reason or way to doubt. So, evidence doesn't matter; it is about belief and faith.
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