RE: If I were an Atheist
March 26, 2015 at 7:43 am
(This post was last modified: March 26, 2015 at 7:46 am by robvalue.)
Supernatural claims are worthless to anyone at all interested in truth.
It's not possible to determine that an event has supernatural causation at all, let alone what causation. It is possible to freak out and call stuff you don't understand supernatural, but that isn't worth anything since it's entirely speculation. So something cannot accurately be described as a supernatural event, ever. There are no goalposts.
There's no need to deny the possibility of the supernatural, just to admit that by definition we cannot know anything about it. (I use the definition of supernatural being anything that can never be measured or tested, regardless of whether we currently have the ability to do so.)
It's not possible to determine that an event has supernatural causation at all, let alone what causation. It is possible to freak out and call stuff you don't understand supernatural, but that isn't worth anything since it's entirely speculation. So something cannot accurately be described as a supernatural event, ever. There are no goalposts.
There's no need to deny the possibility of the supernatural, just to admit that by definition we cannot know anything about it. (I use the definition of supernatural being anything that can never be measured or tested, regardless of whether we currently have the ability to do so.)
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