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Article #4594Re: Atheism - Defined
From: The Natural Philosopher
Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 13:02
Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 13:02
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Paul Schlyter wrote: > In article <1148987918.128009.142170@i39g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>, > Mabon Dane <haverhill@h2009.com> wrote: >> If an individual can live a life without relying on some supernatural >> source then some would say that they have become mature independent >> individuals. However, if a supernatural force does exist and the >> individual goes it alone then it becomes a situation rather like >> walking to the North Pole without any clothes on. >> >> Mabon Dane > > > Supernatural phenomena do not exist, by definition. If the phenomenon > exists, it is natural, not supernatural. Even if we don't understand it. > > If we're going to label a natural phenomenon "supernatural" just because > we don't understand it, then a lot of phenomena (for instance radio > waves) would have been "supernatural" a few centuries ago. > > Likewise all of humanities activities, up to and including nuclear power, are as natural as can be. > >
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X-Google-Thread: f74ae,5bfa2bad3eb2f724 X-Google-Thread: 109d8a,5bfa2bad3eb2f724 X-Google-Thread: 10f545,5bfa2bad3eb2f724 X-Google-Thread: 102f53,dbe804fe03422bb5 X-Google-Thread: 106b5d,dbe804fe03422bb5 X-Google-Attributes: gidf74ae,gid109d8a,gid10f545,gid102f53,gid106b5d,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newspeer1.nwr.nac.net!solnet.ch!solnet.ch!news.clara.net!wagner.news.clara.net!195.245.201.10.MISMATCH!monkeydust.news.clara.net!despina.uk.clara.net Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 14:02:52 +0100 From: The Natural Philosopher <a@b.c> User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (Windows/20060308) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: sci.astro,sci.math,sci.physics.relativity,cam.misc,rec.org.mensa Subject: Re: Atheism - Defined References: <GGE9R1NN38864.7686574074@twistycreek.com> <1148960005.673259.112750@i40g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> <1148987918.128009.142170@i39g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <e5hebe$11fc$1@merope.saaf.se> In-Reply-To: <e5hebe$11fc$1@merope.saaf.se> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@clara.net (please include full headers) X-Trace: 686401ac6605f41006d684ec5954580486976626a361b096f4c64370447c4227 NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 14:01:27 +0100 Message-ID: <1148994087.40247.2@despina.uk.clara.net> Lines: 26