Why is there no scientific evidence for the Supernatural or God?

[AgnosticBoy]

Here's a well-articulated point about the absence of evidence for the supernatural being evidence for its non-existence:

The best explanation for why there has been so far no convincing, independently verifiable evidence for supernatural phenomena, despite honest and methodologically sound attempts to verify them, is that these phenomena probably do not exist. Indeed, as discussed earlier, absence of evidence, where such evidence is expected to be found after extensive searching, is evidence of absence.

Source: Can Science Test Supernatural Worldviews by Yonatan I. Fishman, PhD.

Do you agree with the point above? If not, why do you think that there's a lack of scientific evidence for God's existence and the supernatural?

 

[AgnosticBoy]

The best explanation for why there has been so far no convincing, independently verifiable evidence for supernatural phenomena, despite honest and methodologically sound attempts to verify them, is that these phenomena probably do not exist. Indeed, as discussed earlier, absence of evidence, where such evidence is expected to be found after extensive searching, is evidence of absence.

Do you agree with the point above? If not, why do you think that there's a lack of scientific evidence for God's existence and the supernatural?

If we go on what's probable, then I believe the supernatural and God probably do not exist. But I hold that position for different reasons than the statement in the article. I believe there is plenty of evidence for things that seem to defy the laws of nature, but the evidence is just not on a scientific scale. I think that is a big factor that the author doesn't seem to factor in. One big reason we have non-scientific level evidence as opposed to scientific is that a lot of the supernatural instances occur unexpectedly and are therefore outside of the lab controls or replicability.

Also, there is no serious body of scientists devoted to studying supernatural phenomenon. What i usually see are just lone skeptics, some times a group of them, that are only interested in debunking or the matter remains unsolved. I also think that at times that there are more than one way for things to happen, so skeptics may just be finding alternatives for things and wrongly assuming that there is only one way for something to happen. Even if one applies Occam's Razor here, that doesn't mean that the simplest explanation is right or is the only possible way for something to occur. Refer to my response to the second question in this thread, https://theagnosticforum.com/threads/what-is-occams-razor-how-is-it-be-abused.596/#post-3652.