We ought to be honest and explicit about what we regard as impossible

One of the problems about a discussing the supernatural or paranormal with a typical mainstream modern materialist-atheist; is that he regards all such things as: a created reality, god/ gods, spirits, life after death, miracles, ghosts, UFOs and aliens, out-of-body-experiences, pre-cognition, telekinesis, and telepathy... as not just improbable but impossible. 

He thinks that such phenomena are not real, simply do not exist. 

Therefore he is immune to "evidence" - and can never be convinced by any account of them; because since he is decided that such phenomena do not exist, all such evidence Must Be mistaken or dishonest.

All reports of phenomena can only be explained by being explained away with normal materialist causes; or else ignored because the Must Be mistaken or dishonest.  

But while it is easy to criticise materialist-atheists for such exclusions; we all use this method of reasoning. 

For instance I will always interpret claims of pre-cognition, of being able to "see the future", in ways that preserve the irreversible and sequential nature of "time". 

I simply cannot be persuaded that somebody already knows the future in that sense; because for me "time" is an intrinsically part of my most fundament assumptions concerning reality. 

That is, because I regard eternal living Beings as the fundamental units of reality; the livingness of Beings is dynamic and developmental - such that what be abstractly call "time" is an attribute of all Beings. 

Therefore I Will Not accept any explanation of phenomena that regards all time as simultaneous, or posits a situation outside of time, or includes time travel into the future. 

I am not persuadable otherwise; and I ought to make this clear before engaging in evaluations of phenomena that appear to, or are presented as if they, challenge the directionality and sequence and pervasiveness of time. 

I am - on this theme - Immune To Evidence!

It would be a good thing if everybody did this: if everybody who excluded all supernatural or paranormal phenomena was explicit about their immunity to contrary evidence...

Because, in a sense, such a declaration can be "the beginning of wisdom" about one's own most-fundamental, metaphysical, assumptions; and that they are indeed assumptions.  

I am happy to endorse my own assumptions about time; but when I realized (in 2008) that I was believed that God could never provide revelations to Men, and the reason for this belief was that I had pre-excluded the existence of God...

Then I realized this was an assumption; not an inference; and as-such was immune to all possible evidence about the reality of revelations. 

Having realized that my views about the divine were rooted in assumptions - and were not the consequence of evidence - I then (after further thinking) realized I did not believe those assumptions were true; and I later abandoned those assumption; and began to believe in God. 

If we are clear and explicit about our assumptions and that they are assumptions - this can be the beginning of wisdom - of many kinds.

But until we get this clear - we shall remain slaves to whatever assumptions we happen to have absorbed, from whatever source, and for whatever reason.