Do Atheists Believe in the Supernatural?

[Jazzykatt]

I would really like to hear what others think about ghosts, hauntings and things that go bump in the night. I personally have never experienced such phenomenon; although I may have convined myself that I saw or heard something when I was a teenager with a ouija board and an overactive imagination.

That would a "no" on ghosts. It seems to me that if one leaves open the possibility that ghosts exist, or any other supernatural phenomena, then it's not much of a leap to then suppose that souls, the afterlife, and finally, god, exists. So believing in ghosts seems to open a Pandora's box of other possible spiritual entities. Occam's razor, once again, provides the most logical path. If you've personally experienced such "ghosts," then your own mind is the likely creator.

I completely agree with the mind being a powerful tool that will probably never be used to its full potential. I think, as minimalist said, that we humans are notorious for scaring the crap out of ourselves. If someone does hear, see or feel something "supernatural' then who is to say that they aren't creating it themselves. Just a theory. One I believe more than the theory of an afterlife.

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We have a number of senses but there are no certainties. We could all be imagining all this. We could all be suffering from hallucinations. Unless you know of another way of perceiving that is more reliable than our senses.
Faith won't cut it I'm afraid. That can also be wrong.

We observe, test, test again, study, measure and gather data from all these. This is how we learn, this is how we advance in knowledge. But no matter what we do or how we go about it. There can be no 100% certainty.


how can you be 100% certain that it is not possible to be 100% certain?

Who knows. Maybe we are all living in the Matrix!