[Rebel_Ace]

"...What I do dispute is your seeming a priori assumption that all claims of existence of supernatural beings are on the order of claims of the existence of mythical leprechauns..."

Ah, here is the rub with supernatural entities...

If someone says "Bah, Leprechauns! They are OBVIOUSLY mythical! There is no evidence for Leprechauns. We can ALL agree that there are no such things as Leprechauns."

Then the next obvious question is, "What makes [fill in the blank] more believable than Leprechauns?"

It is only when you get someone's personal supernatural being that you begin to see fierce resistance to the same logic that tosses Leprechauns into the dust bin.

[reasonisfaith]

Evidence for the existence of a particular being eliminates the option of categorizing the being along with mythical phenomena such as leprechauns.

[jwalsh07]

It is only when you get someone's personal supernatural being that you begin to see fierce resistance to the same logic that tosses Leprechauns into the dust bin.

Except for a couple of things. Faith and reason.

Faith is easy, there have been no Leprechauns who have died on the cross to sow a path to the Lord for those of us in need of just that.

Reason is a bit more difficult but not so much for me. The E,M and C were not there and then they were. Supernatural? It would seem so to me.

Science tells me that the laws of physics could not have applied prior to Planck Time. Supernatural? Certainly, since the laws of physics seemingly were broken only once.

So, while Leprechauns may have existed outside of time and whipped up some E, M and C along with the laws of physics and time ex-nihlo, I accept Jesus Christ at His word and believe that God did it.