I can only repeat what I originally said. If something exists, then it is, by definition, part of the natural world. Wither the supernatural...?
Seems to me that "supernatural" is just an old word for things we at one time didn't understand, the unknown. Once we can explain them, or at least science recognizes that they exist, we take them from the supernatural pile and put them in the natural pile. By now, there's not much left in the supernatural pile. We have angels and poltergeists and deities and the like. The supernatural category has become more and more a preliminary designation, more a holding area awaiting movement to the natural pile. If we ever find that any of those exist, we'll put them in the natural pile. So what's left in the supernatural pile sooner or later, will be only things that don't exist and everything is natural, an expanded idea of natural, perhaps, but natural nonetheless. |
