Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!laura From: laura@utzoo.UUCP (Laura Creighton) Newsgroups: net.religion,net.origins Subject: Re: personality/consciousness, naturalism/materialism Message-ID: <5225@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Wed, 13-Mar-85 09:37:48 EST Article-I.D.: utzoo.5225 Posted: Wed Mar 13 09:37:48 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 13-Mar-85 09:37:48 EST References: <1027@decwrl.UUCP>, <678@pyuxd.UUCP> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 10 In saying ``the supernatural does not exist, for if it did it would be natural, and not supernatural'' you are begging the question, Rich. If elements of teh set of things which are commonly called ``the supernatural'' exist, then perhaps they should be called natural -- but ``do they exist'' is a question that must take precidence over ``what shall we call them'' and ``must we keep calling them what we have always called them''. Laura Creighton utzoo!laura