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To: metmom
Science isn’t allowed to do it because the supernatural is allegedly outside the realm of science.

Nothing "alleged" about it.

I assume you chose your screen name because of some background in the sciences, particularly in weather.

That would imply that you took Science 101 where you were taught about the Scientific Method.

It doesn't allow for miracles to explain what is re-creatable. Mix vinegar and baking soda, and the resulting reaction can't be described as a miracle.

Science doesn't even take a position on whether miracles can occur, but if they do, they're outside the scientific method, and certainly not offered up as an explanation for something yet to be explained.

Supernatural means something outside of natural processes. So, yes, it's outside the realm of science.

225 posted on 03/09/2008 4:13:38 PM PDT by Dog Gone
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To: Dog Gone; metmom
Science doesn't even take a position on whether miracles can occur, but if they do, they're outside the scientific method, and certainly not offered up as an explanation for something yet to be explained.

Supernatural means something outside of natural processes. So, yes, it's outside the realm of science.

Try cosmology. Specifically, the "quantum fluctuation" that "caused" our universe. Or the quantum foam that "causes" multiple universes. And although scientists don't use "supernatural" to describe quantum entanglement and "instantaneous" correlation at a distance, it is "supernatural".

In particular, quantum theory is non-local: it
predicts entanglement between distant systems
leading to correlations that cannot be
explained by any theory based only on local
variables [1], as demonstrated by Bell
inequality. All experiments are in remarkable
agreement with quantum theory. Hence, the
physics community faces a very strange
worldview: in theory, everything is entangled,
but, in practice, decoherence makes it
impossible to reveal this entanglement. In
addition to its "experimental metaphysics" [2]
aspects, quantum entanglement has recently
gained much interest and respect because it is
at the heart of quantum information
processing. The general idea is that
entanglement provides means to carry out
tasks that are either impossible classically
(quantum cryptography) or that would require
significantly more steps to perform on a
classical computer (searching a database,
factorization) [3].

Quantum Correlation Over More Than 10 km

240 posted on 03/09/2008 7:30:35 PM PDT by AndrewC
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