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I don't agree Bryan. If I see something that convinces me ghosts are real, and from that point forth in my life I am convinced of the existence of ghosts, my experience (no matter how real to me) is not evidence that ghosts are real -- at least not to anyone else but me.
I don't know what experience some have had that convinces them they were kidnapped by aliens, but regardless of how life changing the experience is for them, it can't possibly persuade me. I am still convinced that whatever it was they experienced they are simply misinterpreting the event; and unless you believe in alien abductions you will likely agree with me that their experience, however real to them, was not really a visitation from space. Life changing experiences do happen, but they are not proof that the interpretation of the experience is correct.
I must tell you that I too had a life changing experience (and I am not making this up just to prove a point. I really did have such an experience). Mine persuaded me, beyond all doubt, that God is not real. Is my life changing experience evidence that God is not real?