There may be a possibility, but are our imaginations trustworthy sources of information? Furthermore, if it is not a part of our reality (for if it were we could see it and test it), what purpose does believing in it hold?
2007-08-31 06:47:54 · 16 answers · asked by khard 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Complex systems (irreducible complexity) is a poor argument against the theory of evolution (though it was good relative to the other arguments).
2007-08-31 07:00:07 · update #1
"If you had ever felt the presence of God you would not be asking this question"
-- A very ignorant opinion on your part. I used to be Christian and believed full-heartedly in God.
2007-08-31 07:32:23 · update #2
Since my imagination goes where I go....I lived in England for 3yrs in a house that was over 400yrs old. Many weird things happened there (that happened nowhere else) that I couldn't explain.
2007-08-31 06:57:45 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
First point, if there are reasons, than it's not an assumption but a conclusion.
Next, who said our imaginations were the source of belief in the supernatural?
Third, who says that only things we can see and touch are "part of our reality"? Has that been proven by science? If so, when and by whom? Can you show me which scientific journal published the results of the study that finally and conclusively proved that nothing exists except what we can see and touch?
Dude, if you want to be openminded, you've got to stop drawing such broad conclusions from such flimsy evidence. It's a great big world out there, and no one has all the answers, least of all you and me.
It's an axiom of logic that you cannot prove a negative. For example, there is no proof that unicorns do not exist. No one has seen one, and no one has produced a specimen of one. But that only constitutes lack of evidence for their existence. It does *not* prove that they don't exist. The only way you could prove they do not exist is if you could check every place where they could possibly be, meaning every single place in the universe. If you have not checked everywhere, then the thing you are looking for could be in someplace you haven't looked yet.
In short, the only way you can prove a negative is if you know *everything*.
Therefore, to say that something is not "part of our reality" because we can't see it and touch it, is extremely arrogant and presumptuous of you. You're claiming to know everything about "our reality", and what makes something part of it and what doesn't.
"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy." -- Shakespeare
Open your mind, Boy!
2007-08-31 07:24:27 · answer #2 · answered by Agellius CM 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The problem is that the word "supernatural" has come to have so many differing connotations that it has lost it's usefulness in reasoned discourse. Most dictionaries define it as referring to phenomena outside the "natural" order. This, however, leads to the problem of constructing a meaningful definition of what it means to be "natural", as well as the question of how something existing in nature can be outside it. That is why many people have adopted the term "para-normal" in it's place.
That said, I can easily believe in the existence of phenomena not yet definable, explainable, or even detectable, by humanity at our current level of technology and scientific understanding. By Clarke's Axiom that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magick, such phenomena would, at least for now, be "supernatural", just as a flashlight would have been to a scholar living at the time of Socrates.
2007-08-31 09:02:00 · answer #3 · answered by rich k 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Electricity was thought once to exist, you could not see it, but Ben got zapped, I was spared in Battle three times, i should have been killed, to me an angel saved me, you cant prove me wrong, Satan is the father of lies, one goal is to prove God is not real, this way more can find out later he is. i believe because i have seen no reason not too, I was in pain one night in Airborne School, my brother woke up and prayed for me, I did not know this until the next day, God is real and he proves it daily, the fact that you can breathe is a complex system that did not just happen, it had to be put together by someone. God bless Love your friend Dan
2007-08-31 06:55:59 · answer #4 · answered by Code 3 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Probably because we're a curious people and our curiosity has not been fulfilled yet in that area...some have ideas, others a firm belief in the supernatural, but not a full knowledge.
Whereas so far, science and other matters which can be evaluated right now have captivated the interests of others and kept them from questioning the beyond.
2007-08-31 06:55:14 · answer #5 · answered by CurlySue 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well, how would YOU explain why I can only get classic rock oldies when I place the radio on the North side of the fridge? And for sure those socks don't disappear from the laundry by themselves!
2007-08-31 06:58:22 · answer #6 · answered by skepsis 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are some rather complicated phenomena that we assume to be lapses in our reality.
e.g. Will o' the wisp, Hessdalen Lights, The Naga Fireballs, Corposant, spontaneous human combustion etc
2007-08-31 06:55:10 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Mainly spooky feelings and hairs raising on the back of the neck...it's not much I know but tell that to someone who is feeling spooked out!
2007-08-31 07:00:39 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you had ever felt the presence of God you would not be asking this question.
2007-08-31 07:07:14 · answer #9 · answered by elaine 30705 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well, if something's possible and happens, it's natural, so we can categorically eliminate the possibility of the supernatural.
For example, if ghosts are real, then they are completely natural. If miracles happen, they are natural.
2007-08-31 06:53:13 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋