Philologos wrote:
Supernatural is misnomer.
Go tell it to the publishers of the Merriam-Webster Dictionary. While you're at it, go ahead and inform the publishers of the Encarta, the Encyclopedia Brittanica, the Oxford Dictionary, Wikipedia, and every university professor in the world.
THEY are the authorities on this matter, not you.
MDD123 wrote:
The change of seasons used to be a supernatural event, I don't know if the concept of Supernatural will ever go away, but there is a trend of human understanding replacing the supernatural. Epicureus said that reducing superstitions by gaining knowledge was a way to obtain happiness.
The changing of the seasons used to be
considered a Supernatural event, as were the phases of the moon, the wandering of the planets, the weather, and most anything else that people did not understand.
But ever since people started asking questions, experimenting, observing the results, and noticing patterns that could be expressed numerically or mathematically, more and more events are now considered
natural.