(March 6, 2016 at 4:13 pm)God of Mr. Hanky Wrote:Pat Robertson, notwithstanding.(March 6, 2016 at 3:00 am)AJW333 Wrote: You are dead right that you can't provide a scientific explanation for the supernatural. By their very nature, supernatural, miraculous occurrences defy scientific understanding.
You don't have a science degree of any sort, so cut the bullshit already! If you did, you would understand clearly that the scope of the supernatural has been steadily shrinking since the time of Isaac Newton, and it will only become smaller as science progresses further. Diseases were once believed to be of supernatural origin, and now that is known not to be so. Destructive weather patterns were once believed to be the wrath of god, and now these are all logically explained through science. As science marches on, the gaps in our understanding will shrink, leaving only less room for your supernatural explanations of anything. By their very nature, supernatural, miraculous occurrences defy scientific understanding only because they haven't been explained by science yet. They will be explained eventually, and then your god will disappear from popular discussion forever. This is what happens with things which are not real.
The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.