[Fwd: Re: [asa] Of motes and beams]

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Subject: Re: [asa] Of motes and beams
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 09:37:23 +0900
From: mansar@hushmail.com
To: Vernon Jenkins <vernon.jenkins@virgin.net>
References: <00a201c6a475$219687c0$6401a8c0@usereb6bf41722>

Vernon Jenkins wrote:
> Forum,
>
> <SNIP>Clearly, these extracts suggest that the _natural_ is, and always has been,

open to supernatural activity - in God's wisdom, and at His
discretion.<snip>

 On the other hand, our

interest in the supernatural, as Christians, appears to begin and end with

the resurrection. Is this really adequate for those who earnestly seek
truth?
>
> Vernon
> www.otherbiblecode.com

Well said vernon.

One of the things that puzzles me is how certain things are dismissed as
"non-scientific" as if science has already reached her zenith of
knowledge. We barely have scratched the surface of the universe yet we
confidently dismiss certain events as 'supernatural' and therefore not
scientific - or from another angle - "They must have a scientific
explanation...."

Well obviously. For example, for fun, ghosts. If someone comes running
out of a house screaming they saw a ghost and they describe an
experience where a see through figure, accompanied by great cold, pushed
them over and then vanishes most people I know would indeed say, "Come
now, there must be a scientific explanation."

Thats obvious but the implication is that what the person experienced
cannot be as they experienced it because Ghosts (AKA the supernatural)
do not exist. But if they DID exist then there would be a scientific
explanation - just one that we have not though of. IF dead people or
something like the dead are interacting with our world then clearly they
are part of our world and therefore scientifically explainable...sooner
or later.

IF the dead can come back or some spiritual fragment remains in our
dimension then clearly a scientific explanation will be found. It may
well turn out that the scientific explanation is hallucinations or
whatever..but maybe not...and until we have more knowledge and a way of
measuring adequately such events I think an open mind is called for.

After all, if God created the world then everything in it is ultimately
a result of the supernatural which we measure through scientific tools.

Anyhow, a harried half though on a wet tuesday morning in New Guinea.

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