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Atheist VS Naturalist - the latter sounds more appealing to me...
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RE: Atheist VS Naturalist - the latter sounds more appealing to me...
June 2, 2020 at 6:56 pm (This post was last modified: June 2, 2020 at 6:56 pm by GrandizerII.)
Even if we couldn't come up with a clear definition of natural vs supernatural, I do believe there is nevertheless a general imprecise intuition shared by many of us regarding the boundary between what's natural and what's supernatural. If there are gods involved that spin fire out of "nothing" and mysteriously make frogs sing Italian songs randomly and unpredictably, I think we're more likely to intuit that as supernatural rather than simply an unexpected instance of the natural. It's a bit weird to me when people seem to be equating naturalism to something that could be aptly labeled "possibilism".
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RE: Atheist VS Naturalist - the latter sounds more appealing to me... - by Grandizer - June 2, 2020 at 6:56 pm

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