THE Question That The Religious Need To Answer

Religious apologists talk about the supernatural as if it is real. They compare it to the natural. However, they use different criteria in evaluating them:

• Supernatural: understood through subjective experience and authority (dogma, preaching, and writings).
• Natural: understood by observation and experimentation (science)

 Because these ways of looking at reality are evaluated for authenticity through different criteria, conversation tends to break down. I propose a challenge to the religious in the form of this question:

Instead of comparing the natural with the supernatural, why not compare the supernatural with the unknown? To a science-based thinker, the reality of a supernatural realm is unknown.