Scientist Makes Organic Matter out of Inorganic Matter

[The_Flying_Skeptic]

But, it really depends on the context of the supernatural occurrence: if a pastor prays in the name of his deity on an amputee and the leg reappears, whether it's supernatural or natural, the phenomena is evidence that belief in that deity has physical affect.

...or merely evidence that the pastor can pull some good parlor trick.

that's an overdose of skepticism: if i were going to go that far, I might as well believe that all of evolutionary biology is a big conspiracy to promote atheism. if prayer was a reproducible cure for amputees, I would reconsider my world view.

rjh4: (just because some things do have a natural explanation doesn't mean that it is not also evidence of God existing).

the problem is that what there are natural explanations for is contradictory to certain interpretations of the Bible. According to the Bible, God created the stars; however, there is a natural explanation for the stars according to astrophysicists. You'd expect that God created the elements that make us up and all the elements on the periodic table, but there is a natural explanation for the origins of all the elements on the periodic table according to nuclear physicists. You'd think that God created species, esp. our species, but there is an explanation for the origins of species. There may not be an explanation for the origins of life, but our advance in technology has also lead to the superseding of superstitious belief or made the role of a deity vague, so i suspect that just as lighting now is not popularly recognized as an act of a deity but rather a meteorological event, so will life one day be recognized as a natural event.