If a supernatural claim could be repeated and varified via scientific experimentation, would it become a mundane aspect of reality?
Like... If we discovered a material, and we were able to create a lens with it that allowed us to view "the spirit world" (whatever that is), would that world cease being considered super natural, as we could understand and explore it? Would we then classify that "world" as some kind of dimension? How would that play out, I wonder?
Yep!
That's kind of the irony of it all.
It kind of means that whenever the word "supernatural" is being used, what is really meant is "that which can't be shown to exist" to the point of "that which can't logically exist" or even "that which is impossible to exist".
Because what is a "miracle"? It's pretty much the same as "magic". Actual magic. Harry Potter magic - not David Copperfield magic.
It's things that happen which defy / ignore / violate the laws of nature / physics.
We have a word for that. It's called "impossible".
When we say of something that it is "impossible", what we really mean is that it would violate the laws of nature if it would occur.
Like when I drop my keys. It is "impossible" for my keys to not fall to earth and shoot into space instead. Because that would violate gravity.
A "miracle", or a "supernatural event", is an event which is
impossible but which happens anyway.
I like to extend that to the argument of "god exists outside of the universe". If this god exists, then he must exist in
some realm. A
realm which existed prior to the universe. This
realm would necessary have to be a "place" that is part of the totality of "existence". And god himself would be part of the totality of "existence".
The idea of "god has created everything" can thus never be true. God himself necessarily is part of
some existence.
This is the problem when you posit a complex agent at the "beginning of everything". You're still left with this agent, as well as the realm it resides in, as being part of existence. Which would itself be part of "everything".
It makes zero sense and can only be "defended" with circular reasoning and special pleading.