• Question: With all scientific evidence, can you say if ghosts exist or not? Or do you believe in them?

    Asked by rachael1507 to Amy, Grant, Martin, Shawn, Usman on 13 Mar 2013.
    • Photo: Martin Archer

      Martin Archer answered on 13 Mar 2013:

      As far as I know there’s no scientific evidence towards ghosts and they’re believed just to be superstition. I don’t believe in them.

    • Photo: Grant Kennedy

      Grant Kennedy answered on 18 Mar 2013:

      I think ghosts are a bit like UFOs, somehow a lot of people claim to have seen them, but there is no plausible scientific evidence that they exist.

      However, the point of science is that if several independent groups of scientists did get some convincing evidence, we’d eventually have to start taking notice. The history of science is full of cases where someone had what seemed to them a great idea, but all other scientists thought was completely stupid and wrong (it still happens now too!). It even took Einstein’s General Relativity about 50 years to really catch on, and that’s one of the greatest discoveries in physics!

      Having said all that, personally I don’t think ghosts or UFOs exist, and I doubt that anyone will ever get good evidence to show that they do.
      g

    • Photo: Amy Tyndall

      Amy Tyndall answered on 21 Mar 2013:

      I agree with the boys, I neither believe in them, nor think there will ever be any evidence for them. I guess the idea of ghosts originally came from ancient cultures with strong spiritual belief in a ‘physical’ afterlife, but you could argue that these concepts about ‘moving on’ exist purely to make those left behind feel better about losing a loved one…

Comments