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supernaturalism

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The quality of being supernatural.
  • noun Belief in a supernatural agency that intervenes in the course of natural laws.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state or character of being supernatural.
  • noun Belief in the supernatural.
  • noun Also supranaturalism.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The quality or state of being supernatural; supernaturalness.
  • noun (Theol.) The doctrine of a divine and supernatural agency in the production of the miracles and revelations recorded in the Bible, and in the grace which renews and sanctifies men, -- in opposition to the doctrine which denies the agency of any other than physical or natural causes in the case.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The quality or condition of being supernatural.
  • noun A belief in the doctrine of supernatural or divine agency as manifested in the world, in human events, religious revelation, miracles, etc.
  • noun A belief in supernatural intelligent causes, forces, agencies, powers as producing effects in this world.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the quality of being attributed to power that seems to violate or go beyond natural forces
  • noun a belief in forces beyond ordinary human understanding

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Examples

  • John Went: Show us how theistic supernaturalism is a better guide to understanding biology.

    Attached to Strings 2009

  • John Wendt: Show us how theistic supernaturalism is a better guide to understanding biology.

    Attached to Strings 2009

  • Show us how theistic supernaturalism is a better guide to understanding biology.

    Attached to Strings 2009

  • Hear the witness of a member that he cannot believe in supernaturalism, that believing in reason and observation rather than Jesus and the Bible is the only reliable way to discern truth, that he believes in this life and not the afterlife, and that the other nine months of the year he belongs to a Methodist church in Indiana.

    Archive 2009-02-01 fausto 2009

  • The whole of its supernaturalism is borrowed bodily from Persia, which had

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • As supernaturalism is absorbed, to seep out again, mechanism, projected internally, draws out a different image of consciousness.

    Reading Machines 2005

  • Science need not exclude the supernatural, on principle, but must exclude tactics like 3 and 4, which a certain kind of supernaturalism is built on.

    Robert Camp:Can Intelligent Design be considered scientific in the same way that SETI is? - The Panda's Thumb 2006

  • Any kind of supernaturalism unsupported by evidence is less parsimonious than naturalism.

    Wexler Responds to Beckwith - The Panda's Thumb 2005

  • As for "supernaturalism," here is how Niebuhr replied to Paul Tillich, who really did not believe in either a personal God or personal immortality.

    Niebuhr & Supernaturalism Gardner, Martin 1986

  • Science says nothing on "supernaturalism", outside of people believe in it, which means to we can understand how and why they do.

    Discover Blogs 2009

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