Perdition
Member (Idle past 3269 days) Posts: 1593 From: Wisconsin Joined: 05-15-2003
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Science rests on reproducability. If the supernatural is allowed in, then it becomes difficult to show that something happened because you cannot reproduce it reliably. IF a supernatural deity can do something by fiat, then it, by definition, cannot be scientifically studied. Science does not say those things can't happen or don't happen, it just turns a blind eye to them as being outside its purview.
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Perdition
Member (Idle past 3269 days) Posts: 1593 From: Wisconsin Joined: 05-15-2003
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You could argue that science is trying to bring the supernatural into the natural by finding a repeatable test to determine the characteristics of such phenomenon, but it still makes the assumption that what it is studying can be detected by materialistic means. IF something were truly supernatural, it wouldn't necessarily register on any scientific equipment...this wouldn't make the supernatural thing false, just unscientific. Or ascientific.
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