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Originally Posted by Save Us Sutter
The Placebo Effect is hardly supernatural.
There are many ways our thoughs and emotions affect our physical health and that is just one of them. The thought that we are doing something to help (ie taking what we think is a tylenol) actually does physically help.
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I wasn't trying to imply that it was supernatural, it is however a "physical phenomenon" for which there is no scientific explanation (beyond the very basic 'if you think you should get better, you might'). The same can be said for both Dark Energy and Dark Matter. These are physical phenomenon which can be shown to exist, but cannot be explained, ditto the origin of life. We know that life began somewhere, sometime, but we have no idea how, when, or where.
Personally, I fall pretty squarely on the Materialist and Humanist side of the debate. I am convinced that all human religions are inventions and none of them have any claim to capital 'T' Truth, however in a universe where seventy to ninety percent of all matter and energy remain invisible and mysterious to us I find myself unable to conclusively claim that there is no such thing as "God".