Posted by OmegaKV on
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I think it is useful to divide the phenomena of the world into two categories:

1) Natural phenomena. Phenomena that we can understand, or one day hope to understand.

2) Supernatural phenomena. Phenomena we can probably never hope to understand.

I consider the creation of something from nothing (or the existence of something rather than nothing) to be a supernatural event, because it violates every conception of the human mind. But atheists would not call it supernatural, because atheists do not believe in mysteries. Atheists believe that given enough study, any phenomena can be understood by the human mind.

The soul and consciousness are supernatural phenomena, because not only are they poorly understood, but they are unexplainable, because only science can be understood, and all of science exists only to predict the movement of objects, and the existence of the soul is not a question of the movement of objects.

The question of whether there is an afterlife is a supernatural question, since it is the question of what happens to the soul after death of the body, and the soul is itself supernatural.