A while ago my tutor (the legendary Wizard), in spite of being a stone-sure atheist put forward the most eloquent argument for why there may exist something beyond everyday experience. This was not his intention, of course; he included it as a speech meant to illustrate the importance of scientific thinking.
Consider the following:
You are trapped inside a bell jar. The bell jar in turn is enclosed by another, larger bell jar, and there is a vacuum in the layer between the two jars. Sound, of course, cannot propagate in a vacuum. There is lots of stuff happening outside the bell jars. You can see plenty of things, because the light can reach you through the jars, but you cannot hear anything. Is that to say that no sound is being made? Perhaps we just do not have the correct tools at our disposal in order to detect the supernatural.
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