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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2012-07-10 06:14 pm

[ SECRET POST #2016 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2016 ⌋

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Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 065 secrets from Secret Submission Post #288.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
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loki: Loki, Alberich & Odin (h2g2)

Re: SO WHO HERE HAS EVER SEEN A 'GHOST'?

[personal profile] loki 2012-07-11 04:23 am (UTC)(link)
In science, you strictly have to disprove, not prove a hypothesis, contrary to popular belief. (To be brattily nitpicky.) Which is why religion is not a scientific endeavour, and atheism is a belief, not objective truth.

The way we can operate within science at all, given the burden of disproof, is to assign probabilities of truth to theories. Left-field theories need good empirical evidence to support a paradigm shift. Within scientific orthodoxy, ghosts are looking pretty bloody unlikely as things currently stand, and until its believers come up with some testable hypotheses (which they never seem to do), it's going to stay that way.