(March 3, 2016 at 7:25 am)AJW333 Wrote:(March 3, 2016 at 6:58 am)robvalue Wrote: This is so ridiculous. This is what he's trying to say:You haven't addressed the critical issue here. That is, we have a dictionary definition that I am using.
"If reality doesn't fit our current models of it, which are perfect, then nature isn't what we think it is. There must be other things... supernatural things!
No. That is unbelievably ignorant.
If reality doesn't fit our current models, our models are wrong.
If something violates natural law, that is the dictionary definition of supernatural - not mine, it is the dictionary's, don't get mad at me.
Great - now demonstrate something that does violate natural law.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'