Thought on "you cant disprove the paranormal argument"

[Tosefos]

This occured to me recently and thought maybe it was worth sharing.
On the odd occasion when i find myself engaged in a dispute with a new age nincompoop, they start of with all these reasons why they must be in the right, after a short while the information speaks for itself and they are very much on the back foot and in a last gasp desperate `dash for freedom`, the meta meme that has overun a mind with nonsense tells him/her to say "well, you cant DISPROVE the supernatural". Somewhere along the line this has come to `prove` the supernatural or at least and probably worse it has come to (for the ignorant at least) to be a `get out of reality free` card, no matter how overwhealming the information is against anything `supernatural` this single statement makes people free to keep beleiving. I find it hard that despite the inability to `disprove`it any rational person can find the fact there hasnt been a single confirmed case strange.
psychologically to someone without critical thinking, something being undisprovable may make it seem amazingly `true`, like saying a football team is unbeatable, people may assume from the sentence that A) there is a team and B) that they must be amazingly invincible as they never loose. But if there ISN`T a team than obviously they cant be beaten.
May actual argument is, if you say that the supernatural is valid because it cant be disproved(owing to the fact no possible test can be made) than its exactly as (scientifically) valid as the universe being controlled and watched by semi conscious living room chairs or that all planets beyond our viewing reach are orbited by tupperware.
maybe this point has been made before, any thoughts?

[ma1ic3]

Originally posted by Tosefos
the meta meme that has overun a mind with nonsense tells him/her to say "well, you cant DISPROVE the supernatural".

That's when you tell them about the invisible pink flying unicorn above there head and the purple space monkeys that created our universe, which they also cannot disprove.

You must have heard of the invisible pink flying unicorn right?

[seayakin]

I just wonder if these people are capable of opening their minds enough to understand probability and Occam's Razor?

[FreeChile]

Originally posted by ma1ic3
That's when you tell them about the invisible pink flying unicorn above there head and the purple space monkeys that created our universe, which they also cannot disprove.

You must have heard of the invisible pink flying unicorn right? However, the thing with the "pink flying unicorn" approach is that the believers may just say, "Yeah. That's just what I meant." In which case, both arguments get as non-sensical.

[ma1ic3]

I've never heard a believer say that before. And if that is what they meant, then Im ok with that. Just so long as they know that not being able to prove what they're saying doesn't make it anymore probable than the flying pink unicorn above there head.