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Originally Posted by Ruminator
...So here's my thought- namely that as mankind grows in knowledge we will find that the spiritual realm fits into this same universe's space and time, occupying it as well in additional dimensions that we as yet haven't found means to identify or move into, but they would still be operating under the known laws of nature with additional laws of which we are currently unaware.(our single dimension of time being the fourth)
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I don't think this is a complete thought. Your quote in essence says "Scientists have discovered new stuff. We should then assume that God knows about and is controlling all this newly discovered stuff." This is like someone who believes that the Earth is the shell of a turtle being presented with evidence that the world is a sphere, and concluding that it must of course be a spherical turtle shell. There is no reasoning going on there, it is simply a theist saying "Me too!"
Your thought that I quoted is not a new one. Basically it comes down to "All the evidence points to my viewpoint being wrong, but because we don't know everything there is to know yet it is still possible for my views to be justified. Therefore I will cling to the belief that my viewpoint has merit." Sure, we might discover a new dimension with angels and God, etc. Of course we might discover a dimension where the flying spaghetti monster holds sway, or a dimension of marshmallows. There are an infinite number of things we *might* discover, but believing in random crap with that as a justification is lunacy.