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Article #4597Re: Atheism - Defined
From: Paul Schlyter
Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 12:43
Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 12:43
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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. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Paul Schlyter, Grev Turegatan 40, SE-114 38 Stockholm, SWEDEN e-mail: pausch at stockholm dot bostream dot se WWW: http://stjarnhimlen.se/
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