If you made something with materials you found in this universe, then how is it not "natural"?

Question

WE are part OF nature, correct?

Answer 1

Because many are decieved on what is natural and what is unnatural. People fear that which they do not understand, and so when something is defined as "unnatural" it is not understood.
Hope I could have elaborated some, I usually do, but not tonite.
Blessed Be.

Answer 2

1) How likely is it to have occurred as a result of random processes without any directing intelligence? Microprocessors, such as are in our computers, are made of silicon and other naturally occurring elements, but nobody seriously advances the possibility that they could exist without having been made, without having been caused.

2) There are many chemical reactions that are much more likely to take place proceeding in a certain way with certain results; than in the way we desire. In order to make large amounts of industrial chemicals, medicines and plastics, we have had to experiment and learn how we could use catalysts-- materials that promote the reactions without takng part in them and being used up. In this way, we force reactions between ingredients that are extremely unlikely to take place in the natural order of things, without a little nudging.

3) Inside living things, enzymes are like catalysts for many chemical reactions. Our stomachs contain hydrochloric acid, a powerful acid that can eat steel. but we secrete things that insulate our bodies from it, and it digests our food for us.

4) Some people have objected to artists using the term 'create' because they think that word should be reserved for the works of God alone; but I feel that using natural materials to portray impossible things (special effects in movies, for example) is a true example of a creative use of our imagination. Provided that it is not done with the intent to despise or rebel against God, I think the term 'create' is perfectly applicable when applied to art.

5) Every time someone performs addition and gets a wrong answer, that is using something natural and getting an unnatural result.

These things happen.

Answer 3

Oh, wise guy, aye? So, in your question, all synthetic material is natural, since they're made up of existing materials found in this universe. I would say, that anything that temporarily goes against entropy and the irreversible trend to equilibrium is not natural, but synthetic, and that the natural materials are the products of entropy....

OK, i'm lost now, you win.....

Answer 4

Depends on what you mean by "natural"

1) We can mean things in the state found in nature, unchanged from how they exist in nature

2) We can mean things we make by by taking things found in nature and arranging them like tying a rock to a stick using a vine.

The result is a made object but each component part is natural, and the made object could be disassembled into its natural component parts.

3) We can make things by shaping natural objects by cutting and pasting them together, like a log cabin house, or a shirt made of cotton, or an adobe brick house, so if we took it apart the components would be different than found in nature, (cut lugs, cotton thread) but not that much different, (and would be the same as a natural component if we broke it up into small enough pieces, wood chips from log cabin, pieces of hardened clay etc)

4) We can make things by making new chemicals not found in nature, by various chemical reactions, for example nylon, or
that comtains molecules or mixtures that never existed in nature,
like steel, or window glass,

Usually by natural people mean 1 or 2 or 3 above. But of course since we are part of the universe you could argue that anything we make is "natural". But that would obliterate any distinction or reason to use the term "natural".

All comparitive terms are relative. Is boiling water hot (in comparison to what: a blast furnace, the surface of the sun?
our comfortable skin temperature?

But if we want the term natural to have any meaning at all, as a way of comparing things, then generally we would want it to refer only to something other than 4 on the scale as "natural"

Answer 5

Because it is made from all-natural components but put together in a new way nature did not foresee or intend making the combination of materials - man-made.

Answer 6

Are you saying that something made with materials from another universe would be unnatural? That could be prejudical, inflamatory, offensive to non-this-universitarians, and get you reported to the Yahoo police!

Answer 7

when you do something it is natural for you, sometimes for others too.
when you make something with materials you found in the universe it is natural till you change something in it, till it becomes natural for you :)
I think so :)

Answer 8

This is a good question.

You are definitely right. I guess with our limited view and our comprehension of space and time we have to coin terms that are usable for the moment.

Answer 9

If you define "natural" as "made by nature" then anything you make is "unnatural" since you made it, not nature.

Answer 10

Yeah and technically my hand is made of subatomic particles, and so is the air, and so my hand is in your rectum, looking for the tv remote.

Why did you eat my tv remote?