Nature Versus Supernature

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You and I know from our limited scientific education that without a brain there is nothing. We know that without a nervous system there can be no feeling, no thinking. Nothing in Nature suggests any exception whatsoever. But suppose we are wrong about that (tap). Suppose we are wrong and that after we die we find ourselves in another world, facing God, due to an unknown aspect of Nature we call 'the supernatural.'

If memory serves us at such a time it must come as a pleasant surprise, initially. We would be surprised. We expected to be dead forever but here we are, alive, in some room. It is a small room with little furniture: two chairs and two tables; a carpet; a replica of Michaelangelo's painting of The Last Judgement. We are astonished.

As we inspect the room while we wait we notice other artifacts besides the painting: there is a large Crucifix on the other main wall. There is a beautiful painting of a woman and a child above the entry door and on the remaining wall is a painting of a vision from Dante's Hell. At this point we stop exploring and sit down.

After a few minutes god's secretary comes into the room and pronounces, 'HE will see you now.'