The whole issue of the natural vs. the supernatural is an argument that goes all the way back to Plato and Aristotle.  The issue lies at the foundation of how we see the world around us.  Is this physical world all there is or is there a ‘super’ world, one beyond the natural world that we can see and feel and which influences, impacts and defines the physical world in which we live?  If this ‘super-nature’ does exist, what is our relationship to it?  Does nature rule over the supernatural or does the natural owe obedience to the supernatural?  These questions fascinate our culture and lay at the heart of the conflict that rages between faith and science.  Our answers to these questions go a very long way to defining our faith and determining just how we see who we are and what we need to be about in the world in which we live.

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