Studying the supernatural

Chuck writes:Which should we start the testing at? I already said my shoulder was healed and you dismissed it because what, you weren't there to see it?

Chuck writes:Or prayer, was that one we could test? I think then, we need to test everyones understanding of prayer to see if it lines up with what God says. We have to pray His will for our prayer to be answered. His will is to heal us.

Chuck writes:Test: Successful. I was healed. You ok with this test of ours so far?

Straggler writes:Secondly - Haven't we been through all this with the whole 'Hogwarts Hypothesis' thing? That something cannot be tested is not a barrier in and of itself for rejecting it.

Chuck writes:Yes. What's the problem? Then you're onboard that God created lightning? Or atleast it's a viable hypothesis?

Chuck writes:So, you claim steak to things explained and NOW it seems to things UNEXPLIANED as well? What's left for everyone else?

Chuck writes:Science deals with the natural and CANNOT rule out the influence from the SN no matter how they or you spin it.

Mod in the OP writes:The thing is, science investigates what can detected. It doesn't care whether the thing being detected is metaphysically natural or metaphysically supernatural. Science is a methodology for investigations.

Chuck writes:When something IS explained science claims it as explained therefore natural causes, the whole nine yards. Saying nothing about it's origins or how it even originated or came into existance.

Chuck writes:Without a means to test for the supernatural how can the supernatural be refuted or dismissed simply by explaining how some natural phenomena work?Once we figure out how lightning works it has nothing to do with whether Thor is the one throwing those boltz or not. It only explains what happens after Thor lets go of the bolt.Because there are scientific explanations to something only shows IMO that God (or Thor) designed it to work that way.

Wiki on thunderstorms writes:Thunderstorms had a lasting and powerful influence on early civilizations. Greeks thought them to be battles waged by Zeus, who hurled lightning bolts forged by Hephaestus. Thunderstorms were associated with the Thunderbirds, held by Native Americans to be a servant of the Great Spirit.[90] The Norse considered thunderstorms to occur when Thor went to beat on Jtnar, with the thunder and lightning being the effect of his strikes with the hammer Mjlnir. Christian doctrine accepted the ideas of Aristotle's original work, called Meteorologica, that winds were caused by exhalations from the Earth and that fierce storms were the work of God. These ideas were still within the mainstream as late as the 18th century.