Re: bird flu - destruction of the uk and other happy (slapping) topics

On Fri, 03 Mar 2006 18:18:04 GMT, "Kendall K. Down"
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"Revd. Eric Potts" <loiner2003@xxxxxxx> wrote:

It's not a desperate search at all. It's part of my normal way of
operating. I mean that when one looks at a story which involves the
supernatural (if that's the appropriate word) there are two
possibilities at least:
- that a natural event has been interpreted as having a supernatural
content or significance;
- that the supernatural happened more or less as stated.
(I suppose there is a third possibility, that the whole story is
parable with no historical reality underlying it.)

Or a fourth: that it was a mix of natural and supernatural. For example, the
damming of the Jordan was almost certainly a natural event - the Jordan has
been dammed at Adam several times since - but the timing was supernatural.

No cigar, Ken. If the timing was not natural then the event was not
natural. A natural event can, in principle, be traced back through
natural causes that lead to it occurring at a certain point in time.
A supernatural intervention which determines the timing changes it
from a natural event into a supernatural event.

Identifying a supernatural intervention is, of course, one of those
annoying little problems that continually nag the supernaturalist.

William
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