Is the Supernatural essential to Christianity

[Paraleptopecten (Timothy Campbell)]

I would largely agree with what is stated here, but maybe with a bit of hesitancy to refer to people “worshipping science” (or similar), solely because of how often I have seen that type of phrasing misused-- not that there aren’t plenty of people who essentially do worship materialistic science.

As an example discussing misuse of such descriptions:

@jammycakes

There is a very good reason why cautions “not to make our science and discoveries into idols” don’t go down well with scientifically educated Christians.

Such a caution would be a good and important point if it were a warning not to spend so much time in the lab that we end up neglecting our churches, our prayer lives, our families, or our health. Unfortunately this is rarely if ever the case. Usually, when people tell us “not to make our science and discoveries into idols,” they are doing so in the service of promoting scientific falsehood and misinformation, or wilful ignorance and anti-intellectualism. In such cases, rustled feathers, offence and a sharp rebuke are only to be expected, and do not qualify as “persecution or opposition for being a Christian.”