1. Dental healer finds share of faithful believers

Comment #44055 by sims on May 23, 2007 at 8:26 am

"Healing doesn't always happen there and then," he said. "It could happen when they're in McDonald's the next day."

...or maybe it won't happen at all.

2. 4 Sermon for Matins: 'Dawkins and The God Delusion'

Comment #36555 by sims on May 1, 2007 at 2:17 pm

Perhaps I'm being a pedant, but...

For us, a less misleading word than supernatural is 'metaphysical', which has Greek rather than Latin roots, and more clearly indicates the continuity between the physical world and that by which it is constituted.

Leaving aside the fact that an 'argument from etymology' has no weight at the best of times, it would seem that Reverend's choice of words is more, not less, misleading. Perhaps he is unaware that (as I understand it - and I'm no philosopher) 'metaphysics' is so called, not for any connection to physics or the physical world, but only because when a collection of Aristotle's works were put together, the philosophy came after (meta) the physics.

Or maybe I'm missing the point and it's the 'Greek roots' that are important here...