Ben asked a series of questions pertaining to the differences between the mysterious and supernatural. To my knowledge, what is mysterious does not have to be supernatural (any affiliation with religion) yet, it is certainly possible for them to overlap. Something that is mysterious is unknown and intriguing, we have the science and/or minds to solve the given mystery, but there is just a missing link somewhere. When I think of mystery, I think of the show Unsolved Mysteries that used to be on Lifetime a long time ago. Its episodes showed dramatizations of real unsolved mystery cases, most of them being kidnapped children, murderings, disappearing people, ect. People who were kidnapped certainly were not sucked up into the sky, those who were murdered were not killed by ghosts, and those who disappeared did not dissolve into thin air. Do you see where I am going? These mysteries had absolutely nothing to do with the supernatural, we had the science to solve them, but there were not enough clues or witnesses to make the answers known.
When the supernatural and mystery do overlap it is called a miracle, a miracle could involve no scientific explanation or be against science. For example, my manager’s daughter got into a car crash where she hit a tree head on—her car was completely totaled, and when the paramedics arrived at the scene they knew it was not going to be pretty inside, but they were wrong, science and physics were wrong too—she did not even have a scratch. How do you explain that? It was a supernatural mystery—it was a miracle! And the paramedics were more than willing to admit that she had an angel with her. Supernatural means above science.
I think when it comes to discussing the supernatural in a public space, it is used as it is needed, which is not very often. Why would court rooms, or any public situation for that matter bring up religion? It is both unnecessary and politically incorrect. There is a separation of church and state for a reason, because one: they do not want to offend anyone, and two: the claims would be based on belief, and therefore have no evidentiary support and would be invalid. So my question would be why should we bring up religion in a public space? Where would it be appropriate?
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