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supernatural being is a term used to describe any entity or creature that exists outside the natural world and possesses powers, abilities or attributes beyond those of ordinary humans.
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Similarly, there is no reason to believe
in supernatural beings unless there is definitive evidence of their existence.
A lovely little tale... problem is, there is no verified evidence
for supernatural beings - angels, gods, demons, spirits (holy or otherwise).
It's an odd story, with echoes of the «student affected by
supernatural being with questionable motives» story of Death Note.
But nothing takes the sting out of scary,
supernatural beings like calmly explaining them in detail, so that wasn't going to fly, not entirely.
Now that we have a better understanding of our world, many of us have lost the need to
create supernatural beings to give us comfort.
But we will use this solid rubber ball as a metaphysical metaphor to illustrate how natural and
supernatural were thought to interact.
Any legitimate scientist knows that ID is not a scientific theory
since supernatural beings, by definition, are not part of the natural world which science describes.
Since we have no confirmed examples of anything
supernatural I'm inclined to believe that the answer will turn out to be a completely natural one.
Trying to draw a parallel between the natural and
supernatural is insanity, as the supernatural doesn't exist (or in the least can't be said to exist).
These were the things that stuck with me after reading the book, no matter
what supernatural beings they met along the way.
Perhaps it's because atheists have to live with the consequences of their actions instead of being «forgiven»
by supernatural beings.
If there was any evidence that anything
supernatural was real, real scientists would be testing that evidence to find out more and people like you and your indoctrinators would not need to manipulate (and threaten) others into belief!
«When asked how a mathematician devoted to logic and proof could believe that extraterrestrials were sending him messages, he said, «Because... the ideas I had
about supernatural beings came to me the same way that my mathematical ideas did.»»
Most practising Christians, I would suggest, think of angels as
supernatural beings who from all eternity have existed to sing God's praises in heaven.
Ancient literature, like modern fairy tales, is full of narratives in which gods and
other supernatural beings disguise themselves as human beings, sometimes as the lowest of the low, and roam throughout the world to see how people will treat them.
If you consider a sentient, ephemeral,
supernatural being more plausible than an elusive descendant of Old Apes, you may want to re-evaluate a few things.
He has been attending at worship in the Temple, and remains there in meditation, his eyes upon the still smoking altar, and the bizarre carved figures of
supernatural beings which we know to have adorned the building.
The importance of the first two chapters of Genesis (which are quite contradictory) is that they are the creation myths of a prescientific people who were attempting to make sense of the world based on their knowledge, which included the Sun going around the Earth and
required supernatural beings as explanations for natural phenomena.
Spouting ritualistic mumbo jumbo over your food just shows you've been sucked into a fairytale fantasy world of
invisible supernatural beings in the sky and have lost all touch with reality.
Again, the Bible tells of the visits to Abraham and others by
supernatural beings known as angels; however, they were really messengers from outer space who were trying to influence the course of human affairs according to God's interplanetary directives.
Notice how Robby is being clever by not justifying why he believes in an
alleged supernatural being for which there is no evidence at all.
Science can never prove or disprove the existence of an all -
powerful supernatural being, it can never prove or disprove the existence of an afterlife, of immortal souls, and so on.
And the fact remains that specific events in this physical world are simply not explainable as caused by
supernatural beings sticking in their thumbs from somewhere else and going «zap»!