Do you believe that everything 'paranormal' has a 'scientific explanation'..?

Question

or is the truth still out there for us to stumble across?

As a paranormal Investigator myself i ask this question daily, but what do you think?

Answer 1

I love Horror movies and I read Dean Koontz novels.When I was younger I read Hans Holtzer and Whitley Streiber,ancient astronauts and all that stuff.By the time I was in High School I began to doubt all of it.One hoax after another was exposed.Amityville,Psychic detectives,alien abduction.and all the rest.The more you look into that nonsense the sillier it gets.No everything doesn't have a scientific explanation.The more we learn though,the less likely a paranormal explanation is for anything.There has never been, a provable paranormal explanation for anything.Not one ever.That has to mean something.Doesn't it?

Answer 2

The question assumes that everyone has a shared meaning of the words paranormal and scientific. This is one reason that the word parapsychology was created and originally only included ESP and psychokinesis(PK). Parapsychologist rarely study Tarot cards and Astrology as paranormal phenomena. So, grouping everything paranormal (bigfoot, tarot, UFO's, apparitions, ESP) together is probably unfair.

I certainly do not believe that these things have one single explanation (excluding the many cases of fraud they have in common).

It also depends on what you accept as scientific. Does only biology, chemistry, and physics qualify? What about quantum physics? Do the social sciences like psychology, sociology, and anthropology qualify, what about parapsychology? Are explanations in theory acceptable or do they have to be able to be tested and have the evidence supported? Is statistical support enough (it isn't for arch skeptic Randi)?

Does it need to explain all ghost sightings or just some?

I know there is current evidence that supports some paranormal phenomena (ESP, Mind/Machine Interaction)

I believe as our science advances we will find more answers (and more questions). We now know for instance that lightning is not hurled by the Gods because we know meterology, chemistry, and astrophysics but wait what causes the first reaction to start that leads to lightning (a conscious universe, earth, gods?)

So, I would in the end say everything will have a scientific description if not complete explanation. Of course those phenomena will be removed from paranormal as science understands them better and those still unexplained will be paranormal. So, maybe paranormal phenomena will never have a scientific explanation because "Paranormal" will constantly change.

Michael John Weaver, M.S.

Answer 3

Define your terms!

If it turns out that psychic powers really work say, then there must be some way they work. Maybe there's some hitherto-undiscovered field that connects all minds. You could call it 'Datheidi's Theory of Telepathy'. Perhaps angels actually exist, if so, 'Angel Hypotheses' could be constructed and tested. Anything that exists, and is testable/can have experiments performed, can have a 'scientific explanation'. I don't really believe that telepathy and such things are real, but I keep an open mind and I'd be willing to change my views if there were good evidence and a decent theory behind it.

Some stuff in modern physics is REALY far out there - makes some ideas about ghosts throwing plates and chatting to your dead nan look a bit uncreative.

Answer 4

Yes.

Answer 5

No I dont,I agree with you totally!

Answer 6

There is no such thing as "the paranormal" or the "supernatural". There are only the normal, the natural and people who dont have the IQ to understand the physics of the normal and natural.

Answer 7

i just forgot the title of the movie wherein the story is about the ten plagues that hapened in egypt but the setting is the present.. there was a scientific explanation about the ten plagues like it was a domino effect..

oops, the ten plagues werent paranormal..sorry

Answer 8

Of course not. That's why it's Para normal. Para means not normal but we can imagine it is. There is plenty of scientific proof for "normal"; not one shred for paranormal.

Answer 9

Paranormal means something that is out of the ordinary.  Many of the phenomena studied by paranormalists are supernatural.  As in, they have no natural explanation.  If they have no natural explanation then they do not obey the laws of the universe (i.e. physics).  Nothing, and I mean nothing, has ever been found that is outside the laws of the universe.  In other words, paranormal phenomena do not exist.

Answer 10

depends on your concept of normal

Answer 11

I would like someone to scientifically explain to me how I saw a bottle full of liquid move on it's own...

Answer 12

I believe that some things do have a scientific explanation but others dont. You just have to believe.

Answer 13

i personally do belive in paranormal things i dont think everything has a 'scientific explanation'..

i think we just need to belive.

Answer 14

Yes.

Throughout history most things attributed to the paranormal have been revealed to be natural phenomena as science has advanced. It's a matter of time. :)

There is also the secondary aspect of the paranormal, hoaxes. They are a separate issue as it's not a question of science, but trickery.

Answer 15

No - I believe that there are other types of energy that are not currently known about scientifically.....like 6th sense etc.

Answer 16

Everything that happens has a natural cause.  If it doesn't, it didn't happen.  We've never seen anything happen that we can't explain.

Answer 17

I think much of life is still yet to be discovered... so not yet.

If we discover new physics, new ways to explain afterlife, etc.. then I guess you could call that scientific.

In short, future science, sure! Current science, no.

Answer 18

Yes, it should have scientific explanation. But do we human, genius enough to discover the phenomenon? Our modern science somehow weak you know....

that is why,  the explanation of things that we call paranormal scientifically stuck at the relativity theory by einstein.  I mean, through different fields, there are explanation which has a similar seed of understanding with the relativity. So, the scientific world just has started to knowing it which  is not yet fulfill.

Or, you can understand it through vedic science, which in general has a strong foundation in scientifical culture. But vedic is not a modern science as might everybody refers to.

Unfortunately the einstein theory of relativity has the root there.

In brief: All in paranormal things we refers to, is something atomic, so, energy too. Whatever the form is, it is will be always atomic at the end.

Answer 19

I don't believe -- I know that everything has a scientific explanation.  If there isn't one yet, then we haven't classified it.  But once we divine it's function, it can no longer be considered "paranormal".

Answer 20

No I don't think so...life has to have some mystery doesn't it? If we knew the answer to everything it would be rubbish! :)

Answer 21

generally, yes.but sometimes it may be hard to see it