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To: Momus
People used to believe that evaporating water, lighting, and earthquakes were "supernatural" events as well. Having a belief system which allows for supernatural events simply gives one a convenient excuse to avoid having to face the unknown - which was admittedly a horrifying condition for early man when life and death was determined by an incomprehensible nature. It was man's intellect which allowed him to observe cause and effect but it was his natural sense of fear that forced him to invent gods to whom he could appeal and reason with in order to try to gain control over those causes and effects. One thing history has shown is that traits once attributed to the supernatural have been shown to be entirely and perfectly natural after all once the lens of human reason and intellect had been focused. Since the Enlightenment religion and mysticism have receded further into the shadows as a kind of embarrassing residue left over from man's early childhood. Superstition is a result of ignorance meeting nature - which was certainly necessary, and perhaps inevitable, in the dawn of our species - but it's now a relic of a mentality which has been, and is further being left in, the past, where it belongs.

Atheists really seem to embrace this "mankind huddling over the fire shivering in fear at the unknown" creation of God. It is nothing more than speculation, and to present it as fact is simply an insult to honest discussion.

When I mention supernatural events, I'm referring to the "explanation" someone posted here where time and matter spontaneously happened in a bang and that is how existence has come upon us. That, my friend, is nothing short of a supernatural event. It defies every known law of physics and since it's given devoid of any possible shred of evidence is nothing more than a faith based atheist fantasy.

373 posted on 12/06/2003 6:00:51 PM PST by highlander_UW
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