"Supernatural" means "above" or "beyond" nature. The supernatural is not limited to the laws of the universe. For example: The law of conservation of energy says that energy can not be created or destroyed only changed from one form to another, something that is supernatural may not be limited by this, something that is supernatural could create energy. The supernatural would not be limited to the mundane, to the physical laws the restrict us, it would be able to do the (literally but not the logically) impossible.
There is a problem with this concept. The laws of the universe are not laws in the legal sense of the term, they are laws in the logical and scientific sense of the term. The laws of the universe are laws not because someone decided that thats what the laws are, they are laws because they are or observed to be universally true.
Anything that exists within the universe must obey the laws of the universe other wise it could not exist within the universe and anything that exists within the universe is part of the universe. If we see something seemingly supernatural it is in fact not supernatural, it is natural, it is not violating the laws of the universe the laws of the universe must allow for it or it is able to accomplish the seeming impossible in a manner that does not violate the laws of the universe. For example: Lets say we find something that is seemingly able to produce energy out of nothing; either out understanding of the universe is flawed and there is a way to produce energy out of nothing or it attains this energy from some source in a manner that appears to us to be energy produced from nothing (lets say for this example it is able to siphon energy from spacetime it self but it does it in such a manner that to us it looks like energy from nothing).
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This is the last post I will submit for this thread. Your definition does not apply because no one agrees with it. In order for a word to exist and have meaning, people need to use it and understand it when it is heard. If you tell people that the word “supernatural” doesn’t exist, they will most likely take it with a grain of salt. Yes, the word “supernatural” does exist because people have assigned a meaning to it and understanding is achieved when they hear it. Alas, your reasoning on this issue is illogical.
You think I mean the word?
If energy cannot be created or destroyed, then how the fuck did the big bang occour? Evolution is NOT science. Science is a proven fact, evolution is a theory and not proven.
Wow Jim The Fail, you fail epically. You fail evolution which mean you fail biology, you fail cosmology, physics and you fail science epically. And not only that, the post you commented on has nothing to do with evolution, the big bang or anything in science at all.
What makes it an epic fail is, the information is available to any one who is interested (I have posts on these here). The fact that you say “its just a theory” not only shows that you are no interested in science but you are not even interested in what the evidence is and what a theory means in science (the fact that gravity is still a theory, the theory of relativity is still a theory, germ theory is still a theory should tell you that “theory” in science does not mean the same thing as “theory” in everyday use).