Re: What is Evolution?

On Mar 16, 6:10 pm, Louann Miller <louan...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Burkhard <b.scha...@xxxxxxxx> wrote in news:064f7c2d-6bb9-4a6d-be3b-
4342800b9...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

Scientific naturalism makes certain
claims, such as that the supernatural can never be detected,

Mhh - for a certain value of detected only. I'd say that if the
supernatural is detected (by natural means) , it stops being
supernatural

Annoyingly, THAT is only for a certain value of 'supernatural.' Consider
a classic Biblical miracle, like curing leprosy or raising the dead. If a
story like that means anything, it means that a supernatural cause
produced a natural effect. First you see a guy who really has real
leprosy by any test you care to apply, later he doesn't have; first you
see a guy who is dead as disco, later you see him walking and talking and
eating and pooping, etc. No metaphor or parable or "in a spiritual
sense" about it. It's confirmable and testable what DID happen, only HOW
it happens remains inexplicable.

Mind you, the more carefully records are kept, the fewer miracles of that
type seem to happen. Funny thing.

Yes, you are right of course. Annoying, since i have argued the same
on another thread myself ;o) I should have said: the systematic,
patterned supernatural stops being supernatural.

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