Posted: May 23, 2011 4:37 pm
by Teuton
Clive Durdle wrote:
The supernatural needs to go the way of aether - as a wrong hypothesis.


But if the (mechanical) aether existed, there would be nothing supernatural about it, would there?

For example, what about Qi, the scientifically undetectable life force in whose existence most Asians believe? Should we naturalists say that it's a nonexistent natural force or that it's a nonexistent supernatural force?
(To say that anything that exists or occurs inside spacetime is natural is too weak to be adequate as a definition of "natural".)