My personal experiences and those of select colleagues works for me. Evidence is icing on the cake. Everything else, while I don't dismiss outright, bears further scrutiny.

From a scientific standpoint, I think we are a long way from bridging the gap and developing equipment to measure spirit activity, but we can do our best to develop equipment to discount normal factors. Might not to be able to tell you what is happening, but we could do our best to explain what isn't causing the event.

Andy

I believe that science can in fact prove the existence of the paranormal for subjects such as ghosts. However, the science that comes closes to explaining somewhere in the same league is relatively new, misunderstood, and still just theory.

I guess I think of it as spiritual anomalies being two steps away from us now, and we are just beginning to take the next step (the step before). I believe that normally I would be wholeheartedly skeptical, but possibly open minded about the situation, but I am one of those who has experienced such paranormal instances time and time again while growing up. These instances were not fantasy or a natural occurrence as yet known to us and at the very least later in life was approached by a logical, competent mind. Undoubtedly skeptics will hold fast that I just did not understand the situation completely, and that is true, but I did understand it enough to know that it was not flight of fancy nor was it something that a skeptic could actually explain away with any conventional science.

This is how all new science seems to start out, and if one were scientific in their mindset, then they would know that it is alright to be skeptical, as long as the possibilities remain open (being open minded).