Alright, I’ve been wondering about this from some time, and although I cannot ever expect to get an answer while alive, I am curious about a course of logic here.
(this is a serious post)
Now first, I am agnostic/atheist and a firm believer in science (although I despise some forms of math) and have been since I made communion in the second grade (irony). When I was young though, and once in my adulthood, I have experienced strange phenomena. First time I was in a shared bedroom with my sister and I had seen an apparition. I had woke my sister up and pointed, and she saw the same thing, an approximately 40’s (of age) woman with short hair, and some blurry blouse. She thought it would be a good idea to throw pillows at it, I guess it was because it vanished. Now I was 7 and she was 16. Sure age could make sense, imagination and all, but we didn’t talk about what this thing looked like until much later, and basically completed each other’s description (said at same time). We mentioned it years later to our parents, we kind of brushed it off and while my parents were in a car with us, before we got to description, they told us what they had seen, and it was the exact same description! Still figuring there is an explanation, brushed it off. Older, in a different home when I was about 19-20 I then had objects fly off of counters, etc… No slopes, no fans, the objects had no way to move unless touched, I checked. My sister’s husband also had experienced similar situations, and he is a (devout ) atheist, and very intelligent with no other explanation, although he states there has to be one, he just can’t think of it, but it’s not ghosts).
This happened on numerous occasions, but when I investigated it, there seemed to be no way it could happen, no wind, no vibration, no fans, no air pressure differential from opening doors (opening one causes another to slam, or to move something) NOTHING! I have in essence brushed it off, knowing there has to be some explanation (scientifically or otherwise) and it is not ghosts, but I still wonder.
On to the point. Would it be a logical theory to surmise that if there is a such thing as ghosts/supernatural, then it thus proves religion to be true, hence heaven/hell/afterlife? I know to some this question is a yes, but I mean when applying logic. Is it just a weak inductive argument or reasoning?
Sorry about the ghost story, just needed to elaborate on my confusion. It makes sense, but doesn’t. and any other theories would be welcome. Its just been bothering me for the better part of a decade trying to figure it out, I have no explanation. Any and all theories are welcome! Thanks!