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Originally Posted by DissolveD_JameS
Assuming the only way to explain nature accurately is with science, then surely that which occurs naturally that we have no scientific explanation for yet is supernatural?
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Not at all. If I or one of my colleagues makes an interesting, unexplained, novel observation in our research it wouldn't be supernatural. It'd be an observed
natural phenomenon, yet to be explained.
Supernatural by its definition is something
outside of nature.
If I saw a "ghost" I wouldn't call it supernatural. Again, I'd have to describe it as an observed
natural phenomenon, yet to be explained (actually, I'd probably consider various possibilities based on what we already know scientifically about reality - tricks of light, visual hallucinations, atmospheric phenomena - before even calling it 'unexplained').
Supernatural refers to the world of the metaphysical.