(December 21, 2017 at 5:31 pm)Starhunter Wrote:(December 21, 2017 at 10:18 am)Cyberman Wrote: I think that supernatural belief is irrational and people who insist that it represents reality are delusional. They only become stupid when they invent Heath Robinson machines of rationalisations to justify their beliefs, all to avoid the far simpler and less convenient truths.
That's a reasonable stance. But for example,
the Australian Aboriginal people were used as trackers, to hunt down wanted men. They could see, percieve and hear things that no white fellow could.
People can see, percieve and hear things that others simply cannot, and of course as the Bible puts it, they, and I include myself here, are willingly ignorant, they don't want to know, so they cannot know.
There are things God would have me realise that I don't, because I am limited, blind and lazy.
I doubt that those aboriginal trackers had access to anything beyond natural affinity with their environment, and if they did that would need to be demonstrated. Everything else you wrote is sleight of hand, I'm afraid; palming the supernatural card on the strength of a more reasonable example.
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.'
