is there any scientific evidence for the existance of the paranormal?

Answer 1

Paranormal is a very broad topic. My business is activity generally attributed to ghosts.

Since the majority of people are too busy trying to cling to bad evidence (like orbs & subjective experiences) and totally ignore the scientific method, I'd have to say there is very little and it is pretty much in a puff of obscurity.

You have to figure know what normal is before you know what paranormal is and if it is genuinely occurring, it is natural and not supernatural at all.

Very few people are stopping to figure out the what before trying to jump into the why. The effect needs to be figured out first, the cause is irrelevant until then.

Answer 2

Paranormal is a term that covers many reported phenomena from the Loch Ness Monster, to Ghosts, to ESP. Yes, there is some scientific evidence. Some of it of such excellent quality that even skeptic Ray Hyman has said that positive results were obtained that could not be explained by poor methods or bad statistics. He of course still does not believe in ESP and argues now on theory.

Anyway I have listed several sources for you below if you wish to read the actual research literature.

Also the book "Conscious Universe: The Scientific Truth of Psychic Phenomena" by Dean Radin summarizes evidence for ESP and PK.

Answer 3

i always have the urge to discover more on the existence of paranormal despite the fact that i can get scared easily if i watch a horror movie in the cinema or in the house. But, as far as i'm concerned, no such scientific evidence explains the existence of the "others" in this planet. But a few ancient rituals and customs can be practised to summon these entities. Is a tradition that is up to you and me to follow. Some claimed that they saw entities at the cemetery, others say they did not see a thing. Now what would u say about this?

Answer 4

Yes, there is scientific evidence, but of what quality? Is it credible evidence? Conclusive evidence? Those are the questions. And the answer to both those questions is no.

They are neither conclusive nor credible. There is very little in the way of spirit/ghost research that has any credibility at all as far as scientifically supporting the existence of disembodied spirits. Regarding psychic powers, the ganzfeld studies and their results are debated and are interpreted very differently by different people, though almost unanimously disregarded as sloppy science by most scientists. The PEAR results are disregarded by the vast majority of scientists as being mere artifacts of bad statistical design and analysis. These results have convinced almost no one, but they are the best that the paranormal proponents have so far.

Answer 5

yes, science has evidence to back different forms of paranormal. But thats the catch. Your asking a blanket question covering so many different topics. be more specific about what type of paranormal your looking for.

Answer 6

The only evidence that comes close would have to be photographic. The only problem with that is it could also be faked. I have some interesting photos but they could also be faked by just about anyone. I know that they were not faked, but to be good evidence I would have to prove that somehow. At this time no one has proved paranormal things are real, you just have to believe the people that they are not lying to you.

Answer 7

Since the term paranormal covers so many things, they would each have to be addressed individually. However, it might be telling that so many disparate subjects are all classified as paranormal. One might say that all things called paranormal are termed such because there is no scientific evidence supporting their existence, only unreliable and subjective personal anecdotes.

Answer 8

paranormal broadly includes ghosts and UFO's.
many ghost hunters armed with night vision cameras, handheld digital video cameras, digital audio recorders, and laptop computers have collected a lot of data which include EVP(Electronic Voice Phenomena) and blurred images.

similarly people have pictures and vedios of UFO's flying and there are the crop circles and the famous roswell case.

but most of the evidences have been proven wrong and skeptics say that there is nothing substatial which would prove the paranormal phenomenon's existence.

Answer 9

No, there isn't.

Everything supernatural, by definition does not exist. If there were anything nominally 'supernatural' it would have to one day be explained by our laws of physics and would become 'natural'. People have been trying to prove such things for hundreds of years with no success. That tells us something. Governments have spent millons trying to find and use psychic abilities (since they would be very, very valuable if they did exist) but have ended up with nothing. People might tell you that the police use psychics, which is sadly true, but they tend not to do any better than you'd expect from random guesses.

If there were people with real psychic abilities you would have thought the first thing they'd do is go and claim James *****'s million dollar prize for the demonstration of psychic abilities.

http://www.*****.org/research/index.html

A very funny book about the US governments' attempts to field super-soliders (quite literally) is the book 'The Men who Stare at Goats' by Jon Ronson. I highly recommend it.

Real science has more than enough wonder in it, an up to date popular science book on the subject of astrophysics may sound more like far out science fiction than you can imagine. Michio Kaku's 'Parallel Worlds' is very good and to really blow your mind read up on quantum mechanics. Other great books are 'The Fabric of Reality', 'The Fabric of the Cosmos' and 'In Search of Schrödinger's Cat'.

Kind regards

Answer 10

Yes. If by that you mean ESP and not ghosties & thing. Dr. J.B Rhine proved it back in the '30's. The Russians have spent a foutune on it, not very practical, but ,yes it does exist.