(May 31, 2016 at 11:13 am)robvalue Wrote: OK, thank you for your response
If everything was designed and created by an intelligence, are you saying the "nature" of things is simply what the designer decides was its nature? [1]
And are we, as humans, able to alter the "nature" of things? [2] In such a case, are we supernatural? Is the action supernatural? [3]
Is natural simply a subjective term? [4]
1) With the understanding that I am not asserting that a designer created anything at all: Yes, IF an intelligence created everything, that everything would include the "nature" of things as decided by that designer.
2) In one sense, yes. According to this simple (and metaphysically imprecise definition I offered), we can alter (and have altered) the "nature" of things.
3) No. Instead, we are naturally altering the natures of other things. In other words, according to our own nature, we have the capacity to alter the natures of other things.
E.g. We can make a glow-in-the-dark rabbit. Rabbits, by their own nature, are not able to glow in the dark. Human, by their own nature, are able to genetically modify other animals. Humans naturally genetically modify a rabbit. That rabbit's altered nature now has the ability to glow in the dark. It, therefore, naturally glows in the dark.
4) I don't understand the question
