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In reply to the discussion: I KNOW FOR A FACT THAT trump is going to lose in November. [View all]qazplm135
(7,654 posts)not when you apply the same rigorous scientific standard we apply to any other hypothesis.
Lack of knowledge of how something happened does not equate to evidence of the supernatural.
We know now that the sun is not eaten by an angry god and then spit out 3-10 minutes later. But for a long, long time, we did. Because we didn't have the information to explain it.
Eventually, we understood it completely. But I imagine there was an intermediate period, where people stopped thinking it was an angry God, but didn't quite understand about how eclipses worked either. They would have been right to look for a scientific explanation first, and a supernatural one only when every possible scientific explanation was exhausted (and probably not even then).
But sometimes, even the "unexplainable" has a perfectly non-supernatural explanation, we simply don't have the information, understanding, or knowledge to see it at the time. That doesn't mean those who assign a supernatural explanation are right.
Occam's Razor should be your lodestone.