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Originally Posted by MarchHare
Certainly I think the possibility of supernatural forces existing is very, very, VERY unlikely, but I don't rule it out completely. If compelling peer-reviewed scientific evidence was presented that demonstrated the existence of a supernatural power, I'd be inclined to accept it. That said, I live my life as if there are no supernatural gods or a spiritual afterlife since there is no rational, logical reason to believe these things exist.
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if science were able to prove and explain supernatural forces, are they still supernatural? you know the old saying, any technology sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic. saying something is mystical is a placeholder until a better understanding can be achieved.
on the original topic, I generally don't like wading into threads like this because there's far too much clumping big groups of people into one category or another for my liking. I was raised catholic but don't really practice anymore. the majority of people I grew up with are also christian, but probably almost none of them adhere to the homophobia or literal "big guy in the sky with white beard" type of stuff that some atheists like to bring up all the time. just saying that the number of good, rational members of a religion far outweigh the bad in my opinion.