(November 20, 2016 at 4:01 am)robvalue Wrote: This is a poll regarding your stance on the natural and "supernatural". Now, I have rarely been given a coherent definition of what supernatural is, so just assume it means whatever you feel people generally think it means. Magic shit, basically. Whatever you like.
The three main positions I am aware of:
1: Not a naturalist. I believe in the supernatural.
2: Methodological naturalist. I ignore the supernatural (if it's a real thing) for practical purposes until such time as a way of detecting/testing it is presented.
3: Philosophical naturalist. I deny the existence of the supernatural.
I am a number two. Hehe.
I think supernatural is an unhelpful term.
It implies that anything is possible, that flowers can turn into main battle tanks with the right incantation.
That something can exist "outside of time and space" and create universes, obviously skipping the planning and gathering materials part because there was no time or material. I very much doubt there was planning permission.
Its a lazy way of thinking that provides easy answers to difficult questions.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.