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Argument from God Correlate: Dr. Hood, Univ. Tennessee Chattanooga: Inventor of the 'M Scale"   This article is a summary of my book, the Trace of God by Joseph Hinman ( available on Amazon ). I recently posted essays showing that the true Christian concept of Supernatural is mystical experience nothing more. Now I show mystical experience is empirical, thus SN is empirical.      We can't demonstrate empirical knowledge of God to others, even if we feel we have it ourselves. But if we can correlate something that is empirical with God, the effects of God in the world then we could know by association between sign and signified that there is divine reality. Just as the fingerprint betrays the presence of the owner of the fingers that made them, or the track in the snow proves the presence of the creature that made it, so RE as the God correlate points to the presence of God in reality is the effect of the divine upon our lives. As a theolo...

Bernini's "Ecstasy of St. Teresa" Even though St. Teresa was a great mystic of the Christian faith and she had visions like this one, visions are not part of mystical experience per se. This article is a summary my book, the Trace of God by Joseph Hinman ( available on Amazon ). I recently posted essays showing that the true Christian concept of Supernatural is mystical experience nothing more. Now I show mystical experience is empirical, thus SN is empirical. The argument from religious experience is deemed too subjective to be of any real interest to rationally minded skeptics. Yet over the last 50 years, a huge body of empirical scientific work has emerged in peer reviewed journals that strengthens the case for religious experience as a God argument. Unfortunately, this body of work is largely confined to psychology of religion and is virtually unknown to theology or even religious studies. In this paper I examine the research methods used in this ...

Ralph Hood Jr. The University  of Tennessee at Chattanooga Empirical Supernature The M scale is very important in my book The Trace of God by Joseph Hinman   please click here, go to my book trailer and watch it so it will move higher up the ladder on You tube, so it will  be seen by more people. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tGmDnyI7Aw   Order The Trace of God, by Joseph Hinman on Amazon              Why should we assume that such experiences are experiences of the divine? The first reason is because the content of the experience is largely that of the divine. Even when the experience is interpreted by the receiver not be about God the receiver has been known to act in way consistently with belief in God, and the experience described is the same experience as those described by those who say ‘this was God.’ Ergo it’s just a matter of interpretation. The vast majority of ...