[lbo-talk] Notes Towards a Critiq8ue of Progress (1)

Chris Doss lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com
Sun Feb 15 06:55:29 PST 2009


Lots of things exist that are not subject to physics. Like numbers, and the laws of physics themselves.

I actually spent a little time looking into the origin of the word "supenatural" a while ago and as I suspected it dates to the Enlightenment. The concept makes no sense if you believe that God holds up the world every second. After all, "unnatural" used to mean "contrary to God," not "contrary to physics."

--- On Sat, 2/14/09, John Thornton <jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:


> From: John Thornton <jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Notes Towards a Critiq8ue of Progress (1)
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Saturday, February 14, 2009, 10:34 PM
> "All the things that exist" have mass, velocity,
> and trajectory and
> subject to the laws of physics except the xtian god do they
> not?
> I attended Catholic school and Catholic theology most
> definitely teaches
> that god is external to nature. I suspect this is in accord
> to general
> xtian ideas from what I have read.
> That is what supernatural means, no?
>
> John Thornton



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