In the court of common sense, if something can’t be proved it should not be dismissed but considered possibly true/possibly false.
No, disbelief is the default position. A burden of proof has to be met before something can be considered reasonably believable. "Possibly true/possibly false" is a completely meaningless position as all potential claims can be considered such - what matters is whether or not we
believe the claim, and with that regard it is "common sense" to dis
believe a claim until it is sufficiently demonstrated.
First of all, as most paranormal experiences are fleeting unpredictable events then repeatable verification of these types of phenomena should not be expected (unfortunately for us truth seekers).
Which is exactly why reports of supposed paranormal events almost universally are not worth believing.
The position to then just dismiss them all does not fly in the court of my common sense.
You seem to have made up this imaginary "court of common sense". To me, it is "common sense" to believe things which you have a good reason to believe. It is common sense to dismiss them all until you give me good reason to accept them all - or even a small number of them - as being paranormal in nature.
However for a small segment of paranormal phenomena some repeatable studies under controlled conditions can be done. I believe parapsychologists have shown repeatedly that something is going on that can’t be explained by any known phenomena.
Sources, please.
The dogmatic and vocal materialists (the so-called ‘Skeptic’ community would have you believe every experiment is fatally flawed and no scientific evidence for the paranormal exists.
Then please present some non-flawed scientific evidence.
Many people (who want to believe this) accept the Skeptic position as their mantra.
Skepticism means not believing something until you have sufficient reason. If you are not skeptical of most claims by default, you are gullible.
Allow me to provide a quote from a respected parapsychologist Dr. Dean Radin:
“After a century of increasingly sophisticated investigations and more than a thousand controlled studies with combined odds against chance of 10 to the 104th power to 1, there is now strong evidence that psi phenomena exist. While this is an impressive statistic, all it means is that the outcomes of these experiments are definitely not due to coincidence. We’ve considered other common explanations like selective reporting and variations in experimental quality, and while those factors do moderate the overall results, there can be no little doubt that overall something interesting is going on. ”
I see the words of a possible quack. Can you please present some actual hard facts?
Step 1 (which is all I was intending with this OP) is to make the point that phenomena (‘colloquially called paranormal’
happen that cannot be explained by known phenomena. The hard-core materialist does not accept this first step.
You are clearly straw-manning. The existence of unexplained phenomena is undeniable. The issue comes with attributing unexplained phenomena with paranormal causation. Something that is unexplained is merely unexplained until an explanation is found, and to date no supernatural or paranormal explanation has ever been sufficiently demonstrated to explain anything adequately and with full recourse to all the facts. If you can, clearly and concisely, demonstrate the paranormal, please do so.
Also there is a semantic confusion here. I use the term paranormal sometimes in the colloquial sense (ghosts, spirit communications, etc.). But ultimately there really is no such thing as the paranormal; materialism just has an incomplete understanding of all that is ‘normal’. Even things like souls can be a part of materialism someday.
If that's the case, then it should be easy to demonstrate that these things exist materially. I await your evidence.