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Religion & Spirituality > Ghosts & Paranormal Phenomena Believing in ghosts: 25 of 77

WHY SCIENCE STILL HAUNTS OUR CAMPFIRE GHOSTS A belief in ghosts is as ancient as the campfire and the burial ground. Man's fascination with death and the unknown fortunes beyond is matched only by his continuing quest to dispel the darkness with the clarifying light of knowledge. Science plays the counterpoint to culture's mythic, primitive instinct, which lingers still with the fear that things unseen yet go bump in the night. But the old ways die slowly. Our scientific age refutes talk of spirits from beyond the grave, while polls suggest one in three Americans still cling to a belief th...
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