Nosussbeliefs, I think your error is the assumption that "science" is a complete model that explains everything in the universe.
Science is a system for better understanding the world we observe. All scientific theories are based on observable properties of the universe collected through experiments. But because we can never conduct and infinite number of experiments on a particular hypothesis, or test every hypothesis imaginable, we will never have a complete and accurate model of the universe. Absolute truth does not exist in science.
To give an example, suppose I formulate a hypothesis that all swans are white.
Now suppose I observe ten swans, and they are all white.
Some older scientific methods would say that the data has proven my hypothesis, but that isn't really true. The only conclusion I can reach from the data is that my hypothesis hasn't been rejected.... yet.
I could test a thousand, a million, or a billion swans, and observe all of them as white. And yet, if swan #1,000,000,001 is black, my hypothesis is false. Absolute certainty of a given hypothesis is scientifically impossible.
For this reason, I find it unwise to claim that paranormal experiences are impossible because they do not fit the laws of science. Science is constantly evolving, and new discoveries are constantly overturning old beliefs (take quantum mechanics, for example). There is still very much we do not know about our universe, so rejecting a hypothesis without testing it is harmful to the scientific process.
I'm not saying that paranormal activities are real in part or in whole, but I know for sure that writing them off as nonsense without testing them first will ensure that we don't know what they are.
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