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In reply to the discussion: Is the belief that the laws of physics were/can be suspended by a supernatural force... [View all]Turbineguy
(37,295 posts)1. Not necessarily
The Bible explains things that obviously go against physics in the context of a time when people did not know about the Conservation of energy principle or the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics. The people who wrote the Bible may have meant well, they simply had no other way of explaining the phenomena that they were watching.
Given however our knowledge now, it amounts to a rejection of science to take these explanations of physical events as literal.
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Is the belief that the laws of physics were/can be suspended by a supernatural force... [View all]
cleanhippie
Jun 2013
OP
Not if you make it part of your belief system that the natural laws of the universe...
trotsky
Jun 2013
#4
The notion that the laws of physics could be suspended by a supernatural force
struggle4progress
Jun 2013
#13
Except the sociologist brings her own cultural constructs to whatever the project is.
Deep13
Jun 2013
#42