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	The Mick-Rick Debates There is an ongoing debate in the Church between those who stick close to tradition and those who venture into the margins of the faith. Seldom do the two persuasions attempt to find common ground. But that is just what is striven for in this short book. The gap is wide - yet Jesus spans it.
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The Idea of the
Supernatural

If anything divides the modern mind from the ancient it is the idea of the supernatural. Some say that there exists a reality or world other than the universe of which our planet is part. Others maintain that while this was once a useful construct, it no longer holds water. Under the entire series of the "Debates" wriggles the lively issue of the possibility of the supernatural. Which paradigm do you prefer?

Richard DeRemee proposes that it is possible to stand with one foot in each camp. In Before and After the Big Bang he argues that the realm of science serves one part of us, while the realm of religion serves another. He lives in both the sacred and the profane worlds - the former for the meaning of life, the latter when science is required.

Michael Maasdorp holds that the idea of traffic between the natural and the supernatural destroys the foundations of modern knowledge. In On Our Own But Not Alone he suggests that to attain maturity we must also gain autonomy, neither of which survives in a world invaded by the supernatural.