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With respect, you claim to be in scientific research but your words belie it. What field of research are you involved with? I'm not aiming to insult you, I'm interested to know how someone can be involved in Physics yet be content to blur the lines between the natural world and the supernatural.

We can't explain it, there's no examples to study What?

You're trying to say that god is in a supernatural place that science can't see but then claim it's our fault for not being able to see it because our view is limited. It's either in the natural observable world (discovered or not) or its in another imagined place not in reality. You can't have...

Sorry, I can see a lot of words but not much substance. I don't have faith, science is the polar opposite of faith. I don't know why theists always seem to want to insist that atheists have faith, it's ridiculous. I sometimes get the feeling it helps you bolster your own insecurities about...

Well yes, the box that I and science exist in is able to be studied, it is the natural Universe and real. Anything outside of that box is supernatural and requires faith to believe in because it has no evidence. I don't argue with that, you can call my box as small as you like in those terms...

Most theists don't have to deal with that particular hurdle - they believe the version that was told to them as being the one true religion by their parents before they developed sufficient reasoning skills to question it. But yes, an adult starting from scratch would have an almighty task in...

A claim that Nevada exists is not incredible so it wouldn't be absurd to believe that claim. It is also pretty easy to verify. If someone makes a personal claim that an all powerful, omniscient supernatural being created the Universe in 6 days (in your particular book) and then appeared in...

There are an estimated 4,200 current religions in the world. The thing that they have in common is that they are based on unevidenced mythical claims. I would imagine they are all mutually exclusive (or do you believe more than one religion). That leaves you pretty poor odds if every claimant of...

Scientific research, as you surely know, pushes the boundaries at both ends of the scale from micro to macro. It has a pretty large 'box'. What it doesn't waste time on is those things that present no evidence or starting point for hypothesis, those things include miracles and the supernatural...

So what research has been carried out in the study of miracles? Could you point me to some published papers discussing the supernatural? What is your area of research?

If you're happy that miracles can't be explained by science then so be it. Science doesn't concern you in that case so immerse yourself in your supernatural world of miracles.

You can believe in whatever you want, I'm simply pointing out that god/magic/supernatural/angels/miracles/unicorns or anything else that has no basis in reality is not a concern of science.

Well no, most scientists will openly admit to not having a clue about the supernatural I would guess. You can't explain magic with science I'm afraid. Not sure how miracles blow scientific theory to smithereens. Never heard of that ever happening.

I don't know bill, how do I explain miracles? It's not something I tend to get involved in. Science doesn't attempt to explain miracles or the supernatural because there's no evidence or observations to get started. Basically science doesn't deal with magic or the supernatural, it leaves that...

Well that's just it, science criticises itself to huge levels until only the most viable explanation is remaining. That's how science works, poor hypothesis are weeded out quite quickly. Religions, forbid critical thinking about their tenets and encourages blind acceptance without questioning...

I think I mentioned it in an earlier post but I don't discriminate between different religions in my contempt for them much like the names mentioned above put their case. I don't go out of my way to 'pick on' any of them in particular, instead I will make my feelings known to any street corner...

I think I mentioned it in an earlier post but I don't discriminate between different religions in my contempt for them much like the names mentioned above put their case. I don't go out of my way to 'pick on' any of them in particular, instead I will make my feelings known to any street corner...

That's just it though, there isn't just one god, there's thousands of 'em.

You can't guarantee that though can you Bill? The promise of an afterlife has its origins in our ancient past as we began to become self aware. Trying to explain why we die was a major puzzle that needed an answer and it was answered thousands upon thousands of times with many religions in our...

Not a problem for me, just wondering whether you ever critically think about whether angels and demons and gods exist? I'm listening, what is a 'god'?