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Originally Posted by JrKASperov
Yes and this is exactly what I like to point to: science doesn't explain everything. This in conjunction with the hard reality that we often don't know whether something is true leads to the conclusion (in my opinion) that we cannot simply rule out these "ghost" things, as scientists. As a person I can have several judgements, however.  |
Of course science hasn't explained everything. That in no way disproves what has already been explained. From heliocentrism and beyond to modern medicine and beyond, science is advancing and we are slowly beginning our journey of understanding the strange universe we live in.
"The most important discoveries will provide answers to questions that we do not yet know how to ask and will concern objects we have not yet imagined."
And of course we can't rule out that ghosts exist. Any scientist would be mad to assert something,
anything, 100%. Similarly, we can't rule out the existence of pixies, leprechauns, unicorns, or that the universe is the imagination of a brain sitting in a jar in another dimension. Just because something has not or cannot be disproved, that says nothing of the likelihood of it being true.
I am very fond of Occam's Razor - "...the explanation of any phenomenon should make as few assumptions as possible, eliminating those that make no difference in the observable predictions of the explanatory hypothesis or theory..." "...entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity..." "...selecting the theory that introduces the fewest assumptions and postulates the fewest entities..."