supernaturalness

• “The point is that it’s not the supernaturalness which is the problem for science; it’s the unpredictability or unconstrainedness or unlawfulness.”

  Laudan, demarcation and the vacuity of Intelligent design - The Panda's Thumb

• “To be honest, I find supernaturalness to be a red herring, and the testability and simplicity of hypotheses to be important in science.”

  Owens-Fink vs. Kenneth Miller - The Panda's Thumb

• ““See! see!” and once more the high tapering flames were beheld with what seemed redoubled supernaturalness in their pallor.”

  Moby Dick; or the Whale

• “The actors are supernatural Beings; and myths disclose their creative activity and reveal the sacredness (or simply the “supernaturalness”) of their work.”

  Dictionary of the History of Ideas

• “First, prove that these vital manifestations of nature are above the powers with which she has been endowed, or was originally endowed and we will concede the question of supernaturalness, and drop all exceptions to his line of argument.”

  Life: Its True Genesis

• “For to the religious view of the world -- which traces equally the explicable as well as the inexplicable back to God, which even derives the natural from the supernatural causality of God -- neither the occasional inexplicability nor the supposed supernaturalness of an event can be that which makes the event”

  The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality

• “The third chapter treats the supernatural virtue of faith, its reasonableness supernaturalness, and necessity, the possibility and actuality of miracles as a confirmation of Divine Revelation; and lastly, the founding of the”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner

• “Hermes denied that miracles afforded conclusive testimony in favour of revelation; he distinguished between the proof of the supernaturalness of miracles and the proof of the Divinity of a revelation.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability

• “I didn't stop to think of the supernaturalness of the vision -- I was much too interested.”

  There was a King in Egypt

• “Rostand's need not borrow a piece of supernaturalness from anybody.”

  Ponkapog Papers.

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