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Originally Posted by freakonaleash
Also from Wikipedia (cheers for the pointer Alex!);
"Supernatural is also a classification for explanations which invoke explanative contructs that in principle are beyond human conception, understanding or verification."
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That's no counterpoint. All that quote is saying is that if someone explains something in such a way that the explanation is unable to be tested or verified, i.e. is outside of nature, then we classify those explanations as "supernatural". People can give supernatural explanations for entirely natural phenomena.
You keep coming back to this point of "how do we know the existence of God won't be verified satisfactorily in the future". Well, the answer to that is that we don't. BUT this is an impotent point. How do we know that ANY wild idea won't be verified in the future? We don't.
God was a supernatural explanation invented to explain a number of
natural phenomena. The majority of which we now understand perfectly.
It's not that I'm arguing God does not exist, is 100% false, will definitely never be shown to exist....no-one can say that. It defies basic principles of reasoning and I've said so several times before in this thread.
What I can say, and this is at the centre of my belief system, is that I have no
good reason to believe that God
does exist. Just like I have no good reason to believe that the soul, pixies, fairies, unicorns, magic-spells, chi, crystal-power, homeopathy etc etc exist.
If we went around believing in
everything, or entertaining the idea of
everything, that
MIGHT exist we'd get pretty confused pretty quickly.