RE: If a supernatural event occurred, how would you tell?
August 28, 2012 at 4:58 pm
(This post was last modified: August 28, 2012 at 5:00 pm by Welsh cake.)
(August 28, 2012 at 4:35 pm)Ryantology Wrote: I don't even like 'man-made' and 'unnatural' being synonymous. A car is no more unnatural than a beehive, as beehives don't just happen by themselves.An automobile manufactured by humans, a dam constructed by beavers, a mound built up by termites are all just that, easily identifiable, and therefore unnatural. It is the end product of living organisms changing and manipulating their environment. None of them occur naturally.
Why does the association of the two terms bother you?
Quote:This does, of course, mean that 'natural' has no real meaning of its own, as it is really just a synonym for 'physical'.Depends in what context you mean and apply "natural" in. Of course it has a meaning that we've ascribed to it, but the limits and square-bounds of these labels, including 'physical' are often vague and not well established. Hence why silly misnomers like "supernatural" exist to start with.
