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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (1835)12/29/2005 10:38:10 AM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 2253
 
But, if he remains opague (so to speak) and reveal himself in some way we do not understand, then God would still be super natural.

I have trouble getting my head around that.

Seems to me that if something thought supernatural were revealed in any way, opaque or otherwise, understood or otherwise, that thing would have to be recategorized as part of the natural world. If we have, say, faeries who are flitting around unheard and unseen but we feel the air move when they flap their wings, then they're natural. If we have poltergeists, unheard and unseen, who move the furniture around, then poltergeists are natural. Even if these creatures don't create any physical phenomena but merely convey their presence telepathically, they are natural. The trick becomes for science to figure out how they do that and expand our understanding of the natural world to include the phenomenon.