(October 2, 2019 at 8:39 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: No, a "supernatural cause" actually doesn't do anything by itself. All it does in the hands of the person who asserted it is to let that person shout down the possibility of examining the so called "revealed truth" by more demonstrably reliable yardsticks to determine whether it is likely to be true or not.The supernatural is an explanation for something that those demonstrably reliable yardsticks ascertain but cannot explain, not because it requires more observation and expansion of knowledge, but because it has no observable cause and cannot be known.
Quote:It does not open up any possibility whatsoever of getting closer to any sort of truth which could be verified by means less flawed than a person's fervent wish for something to be true.It opens up the possibility of getting us closer to the sort of truth that we cannot empirically verify but is beneficial to our well-being and conforms with all human means of knowing objective reality.
