(October 17, 2016 at 9:41 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: From long experience the thread will quickly turn to semantics. The argument will be that everything previously thought supernatural later got rolled into natural. Blah blah blah. When in fact the opposite happened. We expanded the definition of natural to encompass previously dismissed phenomena.
Oh, yeah. Instead of figuring out the natural mechanisms behind lightning, earthquakes, volcanoes, the sun, meteors, comets, et al, we just stretched the word "natural" to include those things. Oh, wait, that's not how it worked at all.
What part of your ass did you pull this one out of?
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell