Sentences with phrase «supernatural explanation»

That's the problem with supernatural explanations, they don't actually explain anything, they just move the question one step up the causal chain.

So far you are just demonstrating how sophisticated natural explanations are, and how supernatural explanations are just black boxes of magic.

Because it requires supernatural explanations of natural phenomena, creationism does not meet these standards.

After conservatives won a majority on the state board in 2004, they quickly moved to adopt standards that critics say were tainted with creationist ideology, including a definition of science aimed at allowing supernatural explanations for natural phenomena.

The religious emphasis on otherworldly beliefs evolved, Wilson says, because supernatural explanations seem to motivate human cooperation better than factual ones.

If you insist that all this other stuff is just people changing their mind, but Paul; s conversion requires supernatural explanation that somehow validates it, I would say your grasp on human psychology is tenuous at best.

My point, which is valid, is that 1) There is no definitive natural explanation, and 2) There is a definitive supernatural explanation.

When that individual then applies the same method to other questions, and rejects supernatural explanations, other positions tend to differ quite drastically from the dogmatic positions held by those who would accept «revealed truth» without natural evidence.

Once you open the doors to a possible supernatural explanation, there are no boundries to what can or can not be.

So basically it is more «reasonable» to attach supernatural explanations (something that has never been verified as the cause of anything) rather than natural explanations (something that has been found to be the cause of everything we can understand).

Again, all of these scenarios are much more probable than the Christian supernatural explanation.

Dr. Markway doesn't qualify as an objective observer because he constantly pushes supernatural explanations for the phenomena they witness.

... supernatural explanations always mean the end of inquiry: that's the way God wants it, end of story.

Rather, the problem is to get them to reject irrational and supernatural explanations of the world, the demons that exist only in their imaginations, and to accept a social and intellectual apparatus, Science, as the only begetter of truth.»

It was invented by the Jews almost 6,000 years ago and was very specific (elaborate rules / punishments, supernatural explanations for obviously scientific phenomena, etc.).

[n 2] Intelligent design seeks to redefine science in a fundamental way that would invoke supernatural explanations, an approach its proponents describe as theistic realism or theistic science.

Earthquakes and hurricanes are only two examples of a plethora of physical phenomena that are well understood by science today, and which had religious / supernatural explanations in ages past.

@Tom, Tom, the Other One: If you want to add the existence of a supernatural explanation as a premise or fact you need to do that.

There is a supernatural explanation (Genesis 1) for their origins.

It's made me more comfortable that I don't need a supernatural explanation for the way things are.»

This could be my lack of understanding and I also realize that a lack of evidence doesn't necessarily mean that a supernatural explanation is the only one.

But what about the parts of science that seem open to supernatural explanations?

What are your examples of fulfilled Biblical prophecies that can only have supernatural explanations?

Are their divorce and infidelity rates too low to be explained without resorting to supernatural explanations?

For example, if you look at divorce rates among Christians there is nothing about them that needs a supernatural explanation.

Why wouldn't this explanation be just as good if not better than a supernatural explanation?

We don't know why the universe is expanding from a singularity, but since no supernatural explanation has ever been proven, a natural one for the origins of the universe really is a more than fair assumption, wouldn't you say?

@Theo The moment you invoke a supernatural explanation for natural phenomena, systematic logic is no longer applicable but it takes faith to believe in the supernatural.

You seem to think that «faster than the speed of light» is something outside of known physics that needs a supernatural explanation.

As we have a natural explanation why do we need a supernatural explanation?

He posits «that supernatural explanations, while not suitable in every case, should be welcome on the scholarly table along with other explanations often discussed,» for «antisupernaturalism has reigned as an inflexible Western academic premise long enough.»

Scientism claims that the natural world is all there is, that supernatural explanations of the world are irrational, that everything can be reduced to physical causes, and that the only things we can know as true are those which Science reveals — supported by evidence, submitted to experimentation, and reviewed by peers.

The problem is to get [people] to reject irrational and supernatural explanations of the world, the demons that exist only in their imaginations, and to accept a social and intellectual apparatus, Science, as the only begetter of truth.