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To: VadeRetro
Another point is that science doesn't really exclude the possibility of finding evidence for the supernatural at all, although Johnson is shrilly claiming that it does. The

Well, science does exclude the possibility of offering up the supernatural as an explanation (because science doesn't deal with the supernatural, it can only deal with the natural). That still doesn't mean that it couldn't find evidence of it, just that it could explain it (and Johnson is thus still wrong).
258 posted on 05/30/2002 8:06:25 AM PDT by Dimensio
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To: Dimensio
That still doesn't mean that it couldn't find evidence of it, just that it could explain it (and Johnson is thus still wrong).

It would have to box it in very tightly, of course. A post that's still around criticises this part for requiring supernaturalism to prove a negative.

Well, God could peek out from behind the clouds and say "Hi!" but that's another thing that hasn't happened yet.

261 posted on 05/30/2002 8:13:52 AM PDT by VadeRetro
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