28th February 2005, 8:51 PM
If you wanted to get right down to it all words and their meanings are essentially meaningless. Their simply an attempt by humans to explain the firing of nuerons as interpretted by the brain. And all our concepts of the universe and how it works are merely ways for us to understand why something happens. So going by that, "natural" and "unnatural" are as meaningless as "drum" and "nest". :)
But, I'll just assume that you want me to explain the difference in a way that us humans can undestand. Let me put it like this: This instrument to be used is the one made by God, meaning ourselves, and not instruments made by US, meaning drums and so forth. So in that sense, natural is something that is designed by God, while unnatural would something that is not. A nest or a drum or a house would be unnatural, while a human or a bird or a plant would be natural, though I suppose you could argue that in this day and age the lines between natural and unnatural are not so pronounced as they once were, what with genetic engineering and all that.
But, I'll just assume that you want me to explain the difference in a way that us humans can undestand. Let me put it like this: This instrument to be used is the one made by God, meaning ourselves, and not instruments made by US, meaning drums and so forth. So in that sense, natural is something that is designed by God, while unnatural would something that is not. A nest or a drum or a house would be unnatural, while a human or a bird or a plant would be natural, though I suppose you could argue that in this day and age the lines between natural and unnatural are not so pronounced as they once were, what with genetic engineering and all that.
Sometimes you get the scorpion.