Quote:I can't make sense of a class of objects which are by their very nature 'supernatural'. To my way of thinking, everything that exists is and must be natural. Our inability to detect it doesn't guarantee that it doesn't exist, but if it does exist it is natural. So one belief I have about gods is that if they exist, they are part of the universe - not the known universe obviously, but definitely part of the natural order.
This is interesting, thanks.
I saw a great show on PBS the other night about time. Did anybody catch it?
It was a review of modern scientific theory about time. To attempt to summarize, it claimed the movement time is an illusion brought on by a limited perspective, and that the past, present and future all exist together, and are equally real. There was much discussion of the relationship between space and time which I can not repeat.
Point being, the show presented a completely science based belief which totally contradicts our common sense notion of what is natural and logical etc. If theism had been the source of these assertions, we would have all been falling down laughing our asses off. However, it wasn't the Pope making this claim, but Einstein.
It's hard to imagine something outside of natural law, agreed. But then it's hard to imagine that time is an illusion too.
