Well, if you compare a naturalist view to a supernaturalist view, it's clear why the supernaturalist one seems a bit misty.
In a naturalist view everything HAS to have a natural cause. So you have an inherent demand for complexity -- maybe even mind-bogging complexity, but a transparent one nevertheless.
In a supernaturalist view you can always cut complexity short by saying "a wizard did it" (or in the theist version "God did it"), which is a dead-end argument -- it's not to be questioned, so it provides an easy explanation that doesn't promote any further thinking; in fact, as God is supposed to be completely incomprehensible, it's inherently opaque.
Now of course most sensible supernaturalists accept naturalist explanations where saying anything else would be blatantly silly, but as it is with the God of the Gaps, they still insist on having a monopoly for unanswered questions, saying their universal answer (God did it) is the only valid one that will ever be, until enough people are convinced otherwise and they have to retreat even further.
So atheist thinking promotes investigations, theist thinking prohibits it. i.e. adopting a naturalist worldview can free your mind.
In a naturalist view everything HAS to have a natural cause. So you have an inherent demand for complexity -- maybe even mind-bogging complexity, but a transparent one nevertheless.
In a supernaturalist view you can always cut complexity short by saying "a wizard did it" (or in the theist version "God did it"), which is a dead-end argument -- it's not to be questioned, so it provides an easy explanation that doesn't promote any further thinking; in fact, as God is supposed to be completely incomprehensible, it's inherently opaque.
Now of course most sensible supernaturalists accept naturalist explanations where saying anything else would be blatantly silly, but as it is with the God of the Gaps, they still insist on having a monopoly for unanswered questions, saying their universal answer (God did it) is the only valid one that will ever be, until enough people are convinced otherwise and they have to retreat even further.
So atheist thinking promotes investigations, theist thinking prohibits it. i.e. adopting a naturalist worldview can free your mind.
