“I know that it is not very romantic to reject the supernatural. But the natural world around me is teeming with such wonders that I don’t need to turn to the supernatural to find the amazing.”
I didn’t call those things “supernatural” - you did. I’m not a romantic when it comes to “alternative” stuff - in fact I take them with a great deal of salt. I referred to them as paranormal. In fact I explicitly stated that those one time events are part of reality, but science cannot do much with them other than speculate because, again, the scientific method relies on reproducibility and repeatability. Having said that I’m all in favor of science investigating paranormal events.
By the way, I’m an engineer, so I appreciate science and nature very much, and am awed at how much it has contributed to our understanding of the universe. It is undoubtedly one of man’s greatest achievement. Still I believe its wise to know and appreciate its limits.
I’m sorry, I misunderstood you. I guess I’ve been listening to too much Coast to Coast... a side effect of having to drive late at night.