Reply #11: Science is an open process [View All]

That is we can never close a door. We can certainly grow to understand if it is unlikely that nothing will ever come through that door but we cannot lock them. Science provides us with an ever increasing level of certainty but the downside is we can never attain absolute certainty. This is the area in which paranormal claims play. They make use of the fact that science cannot tell you absolutely that something is true. But keep in mind science cannot say that you absolutely cannot pass through a wall but I would not recommend taking a run at one even if you and the wall are made up of mostly empty space.

Further note that even if a paranormal event were found to be true science would pave the way to understanding it. To reference another movie (they are handy for creating a common sense between people) in Jonny Depp's Sleepy Hollow we see an example of what science would do when confronted with a paranormal event. Science is a process to understand things. If an event occurred there is a process behind it. Science examines that process.