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To: Coyoteman; Secret Agent Man
Science, over the past couple of hundred years, has been pretty good at showing how things once thought to be supernatural are actually natural occurrences.

Oh really? But I thought science had nothing to do with the supernatural. The supernatural is outside the scope of what science can discover. Science has enough to do without wasting it's time on hocus-pocus like that. What's it doing investigating it then?

113 posted on 11/14/2007 9:01:33 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: metmom
Oh really? But I thought science had nothing to do with the supernatural. The supernatural is outside the scope of what science can discover. Science has enough to do without wasting it's time on hocus-pocus like that. What's it doing investigating it then?

Once again you misunderstand science.

Lightning/thunder once was thought to be due to the influence of gods. Science showed what was really going on.

Germs and disease were once attributed to spirits. Science showed what was really going on.

In the past several hundred years, a lot of things once attributed to deities have been shown to be natural in origin.

Science does not deal with the supernatural. But it does show where ideas mistakenly attributed to the supernatural are actually natural. Science is very good at doing that.

120 posted on 11/14/2007 9:12:45 PM PST by Coyoteman (Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.)
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To: metmom
Science, over the past couple of hundred years, has been pretty good at showing how things once thought to be supernatural are actually natural occurrences.
Oh really? But I thought science had nothing to do with the supernatural. The supernatural is outside the scope of what science can discover. Science has enough to do without wasting it's time on hocus-pocus like that. What's it doing investigating it then?

You know exactly what was meant. Don't be a troll.

143 posted on 11/15/2007 1:30:46 AM PST by burzum (None shall see me, though my battlecry may give me away -Minsc)
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