Varuna wrote...
Dante1214 wrote...
No. No one has ever been able to prove the existence of ghosts.
So they don't exists.
If you were to state a theory like that. I could easily say:
No one has ever been able to disprove the existence of ghosts. So, they exist.
Your statement is flawed. Because ghosts cannot be proven means they do not exist. Because ghosts cannot be disproved mean they exist.
In other words, your statement isn't even a valid.
Not at all. What I've said is entirely logical. The burden of proof falls upon you to prove that ghosts DO exist, not to me to prove that they don't. Admittedly, my statement could have been more true, if I had said, "No one has ever proven the existence of ghosts, therefor they PROBABLY don't exist." But only because nothing is honestly absolute.
This has been addressed somewhere else on the forums about the existence of God, I believe.
If I were to say, "No one has ever proven that pixie faeries come to us in the night and drop our dreams in our heads, therefor, they do not," it would be completely valid. If something can't be proven to exist, we must logically assume it doesn't, even if it hasn't be specifically disproved.
Plus, believers will always contend any proof against what they believe in. You can't argue faith with science or logic, and you can't offer proof that something doesn't exist when people regularly claim that only certain people can experience that something.
My personal favorite is people who say only people who believe in ghosts can experience them. Right bloody convenient.