If you believe people and everything cease to exist after death, then how do you explain the paranormal?
1) How do you explain Don Piper's "90 Minutes in Heaven"?
2) How do you explain witchcraft and the summoning of spirits?
3) Also, did you ever watch "GhostHunters", "Most Haunted", or "America's Most Haunted"?
2007-12-23 07:51:13 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
How do you explain the paranormal, as long as it has supposedly existed, not once, has any body had concrete evidence that it exists. Not once, unless someone else can prove otherwise, it all circumstantial.
2007-12-23 07:54:54 · answer #1 · answered by Ezz 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Unfortunatey, none of the paranormal activities you've described have withstood the cold and repetitive stare of objective science. The mind can make you think many things, including a visit to heaven for 90 minutes. There may be things that are currently unexplained, but to jump to a supernatural explanation is using CAVE MAN logic to explain the unknown.
Hauntings are anecdotal, witchcraft is based on primitive superstition and the 90 minutes in heaven can't be analyzed or corroborated by a third party observation. A person in a coma or sleeping can 'dream' of anything.....how does that prove the existence of a heaven?
2007-12-23 16:49:03 · answer #2 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1) You explain. No offense but the burden of explaining theories is on those who bring up the theories. It is not our job to disprove theories we don't believe in. Besides, theories must be repeatedly tested by others and must yield consistent outcome. I let believers kill Don Piper again and again for 90 minutes each. I promise to read the reports tho. :)
2) Again, you explain.
3) Yes, once. I was in a party and some girls loved to be spooked by that show, haha! Well, to me, there was nothing scientific in it. Nothing to learn from. It was all suggestive and most likely fake.
2007-12-23 10:35:37 · answer #3 · answered by Russ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I cannot truly answer from an atheists perspective, because I am a Christian, but, I have yet to hear even a weak attempt at explaining the most fundamental evidence of God's existence- Existence. All the evidence you listed could be explained away with imagination, prestidigitation and special effects, not that I don't believe them. But, with all the scientific principals and theories that take us all the way back to a dense atomic mass from whence came all other matter and energy, I have yet to hear anyone even attempt to explain where that mass came from. Anyone care to take a stab at it? Good luck and God Bless.
2007-12-23 07:59:22 · answer #4 · answered by Pee Amigo No 3 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am not an Atheist or a Theist but I can tell you that points 1-3 are from the same place as all magical belief; imagination. You learned to 'make believe' before you learned to read and write. It is in your conditioning now.
The same gullibility that breeds superstition allows you to be controlled by those who create and continue spreading these ideas. It is easier to control with fear and confusion than anything else.
2007-12-23 08:35:26 · answer #5 · answered by @@@@@@@@ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Okay, if you believe in ghosts because people claim to see them then you may as well believe in many other things people claim to see, notably aliens.
Show me that alien. Show me that ghost. Show me those delusional things you speak of all the time. You see them only when noone else is around. Why can't you see them when I'm around, or anyone else as a matter of fact?
And I don't know who Dan Piper, but I can tell by the name of the documentary that he probably spent 90 minutes in heaven and then came back to earth. He must be a delusional fundie, and while he was intermittently out of this world, he must have dreamt that he was seeing god. This probably happened because that's what his brain expected, or WANTED to expect. Trust me, if you are delusional enough and you want to see an alien in your dream, and you expect it - you will see one. No doubt about it.
If you are mentally unstable and you want to see god in your dreams - you will.
2007-12-23 07:54:23 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
I suspect you watch a little too much television , Sir.
The paranormal is like a religion - Only certain types of people actually believe in it, and those that do, continue to do so with conviction.
Each to their own.
2007-12-23 07:58:56 · answer #7 · answered by MikeD2 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
the above examples are not real.
'spirits' don't exist
most haunted is not real because 'ghosts' don't exist.
as for don piper, ill presume that you are refering to a near death exp.-that is just a dying and halluceigenic brain.
2007-12-23 07:56:38 · answer #8 · answered by NONAME 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
oh ok i'm not atheist so i guess the questions dont apply to me. but i feel free to say that although u might really have a good point....remember that if u believe without seeing...u r more blessed =)
2007-12-23 07:57:33 · answer #9 · answered by diva 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I am not an athest but aI agree completely!!!!!!!
I love Don Pipper! I got to meet him and he signed my book! He always signs it "see you in heaven!"
2007-12-23 07:55:17 · answer #10 · answered by ***Lena*** 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋