Reply #173: Your verbosity fails to reach any new point. [View All]

[darkstar3]

Therefore, I'll say it again:
IE, if a supernatural phenomenon is supposed to have an effect on this universe, that effect should be quantifiable by scientific research. If a supernatural phenomenon has NO effect on our current universe, then what is the difference between the claimed phenomenon and imagination?

This isn't just my argument, it's Dawkins' argument as well. THIS is the attitude that science has toward the supernatural. We should be able to investigate any supernatural phenomenon that supposedly interacts with our natural world. Science doesn't completely reject supernatural phenomena, it simply requires that the natural effects of those supernatural phenomena be tested and verified before the supernatural phenomenon can be said to exist.

You call Dawkins' argument sophomoric, and yet you grossly mischaracterize the scientific method on which Dawkins bases that argument.