Look it up yourself. It still stands that abstract concepts like the afterlife cannot be proven by natural means.
A: That's kinda why it's called "supernatural." Who decided that natural explanations are the only possible legitimate ones -- not in science, but in life? Who decided that scientific knowledge is the only real knowledge --
which is itself a philosophical, not scientific, assertion?
So science can't deal with God. Big surprise. That doesn't mean God doesn't exist. Science cannot possibly disprove God, because God is outside the defined purview of science.
Using science to deny God is the same thing as that blogger saying
Friendship is Magic is racist. She looked at the show already assuming it was made by racists and looked for things to interpret racially, then acted shocked at her own interpretations ("Those ponies there are kinda dark grey.
If the animators are racists,
then those are black slave ponies. ...Oh my God, this show has black slave ponies! Therefore the animators are racist!"). Using science is the equivalent of looking at the world and asking "How did this happen if a wizard didn't do it?" Science then says "Well,
if a wizard didn't do it,
then it had to happen this way." Then you say "Look at this! Science says a wizard didn't do it because it happened this way!" That's what you're doing.
You're taking the "If
p, then
q" ("If Lauren Faust is racist, then there are slave ponies." or "If God doesn't exist, then science."); then saying "
p because
q". If you assume that
p is true, then
q is also true. But then, while under that assumption, you say to yourself, "Oh, look,
q is true now!" and expand that out as a universal truth, and then look back at the original statement of "If
p, then
q" and say "Well,
q is true, so
p must also be true," which wouldn't even necessarily follow anyway (it's not "if and only if". There could be slave ponies because Lauren Faust wants to make a point about racial issues; God could be using natural means for his own purposes).
B:
Maybe not. I haven't read it yet, but I just put in a request for it at my library. I'll let you know if it's any good.
C: This is starting to get a little off-topic I think (if there even is a topic). We're ending up in the same fundamental philosophical questions as we always do.