Does the Higgs Boson Discovery Resolve the Religion-Science Debate?

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22. Science has made its judgement

And saying that I "worship science" is just another of your (many) lies. I know that's all you have, but it's really pathetic.

And the "supernatural" is just an imaginary concept, ginned up by people like you wanting to make their "god" or whatever imaginary thing people worship immune from rational inquiry. There are two, and only two, possibilities for existence: things can be conceptual or imaginary, existing only in our minds, or they can exist in the real, physical world. If such things as gods, angels, ghosts, or demons are anything but imaginary, then they must be considered as natural, existing in the natural world, amenable (at least in principle) to scientific inquiry, and subject to the same inviolable natural laws as all other things. Any appearance by such entities (assuming that they did, in fact, have a physical existence) of transcending these laws would be simply that-appearance. A ghost which passed through a solid wall or a god which could transform matter with the wave of a hand would not be exhibiting "supernatural" powers in violation of natural laws, but would rather be indicating to us that there are aspects of natural law which we simply have not yet discovered. Any "god" claimed to be capable of influencing or being influenced by events in the physical universe (causing rain, curing illness, hearing prayers, etc.) can't be considered "super"-natural (i.e. above or outside of nature). That includes the Christian god, and most of the others that people kowtow to. It is not science that has strayed into the imaginary realm of the "supernatural", but religionists who have tried to make their "gods" part of the physical, natural world when it suits them (and of course then resorting to the kind of special pleading that you probably have in mind when it doesn't).