Human knowledge tends to see nature as a closed system of laws. While this may generally be the practical way to think about nature, we must leave room for laws of nature not yet seen or known. “Miracles,” if at all admitted, might be explained this way as the product of unknown laws of nature.
In Evolutionary Christianity the Spirit Within or the Will To Godhood, the evolution to Godhood, and Godhood Itself, are considered unknown laws of nature yet to be discovered by science. Seeing these things derives from unknown sense perceptions and not from a nonmaterial experience. Just as the self is seen as a bundle of sense perceptions, this physicalist view sees the superphysicality of Godhood.
This is where the terms idealistic naturalism and theological materialism come from, in seeing a wider superphysical system not yet seen within the laws of nature.
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