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Critics of philosophical naturalism are able to respond by [[analogy]] that there are forces and objects in nature not perceptible to human senses and not observable by ordinary instrumentality which do in fact exist. For example, sound frequencies, lightwaves and radiation not perceptible to human senses but which require highly specialized equipment to detect, which only specially trained and highly qualified individuals can interpret correctly; fundamental subatomic particles for which there is no certain proof but only "suggestive indications"; mathematical relationships and theorems incomprehensible to the average person which may or may not yet (but still might) be proven; concepts of love, loyalty, patriotism, truth, scientific elegance, known, discussed and (not fully) understood but fundamentally ''non-[[Measurement|quantifiable]]''. The power of an invisible magnetic field, which is not matter, to move some physical material objects, which are matter, cannot be explained by the doctrine that only material objects exist and that only a material object can impact or move another material object. Some general studies in ''Physics'' such as [[mechanics]] and [[thermodynamics]] do not advert to the theories and methodology of [[Quantum mechanics]] because it has no direct bearing on those researches, but the whole realm of scientific study is incomplete without it. Philosophical naturalism is an inadequate, even inappropriate, approach to the study of the whole of reality, as a [[thermometer]] is an inappropriate instrument for measuring the strength of the sun's [[Gravitation|gravitational force]] in the [[solar system]] or the [[density]] of [[planet]]ary [[Mass (science)|mass]]. Some aspects of human behavior and human [[psychology]] are still acknowledged by scientists to be "not (yet) predictable", and suggestive of [[free will]], but which for now are assessed according to the theories of "[[Behavioral psychology|behaviorism]]", and these are known from their evident effects to be part of existence and therefore within nature (natural). From this may be offered [[Extrapolation|extrapolated]] support for the reasonable possibility of invisible beings and intelligences who act with free will, and are powerfully able to interact with and intervene in nature and in human affairs: [[spirit]]s, [[angels]], [[demons]], [[God]].  

Critics of philosophical naturalism are able to respond by [[analogy]] that there are forces and objects in nature not perceptible to human senses and not observable by ordinary instrumentality which do in fact exist. For example, sound frequencies, lightwaves and radiation not perceptible to human senses but which require highly specialized equipment to detect, which only specially trained and highly qualified individuals can interpret correctly; fundamental subatomic particles for which there is no certain proof but only "suggestive indications"; mathematical relationships and theorems incomprehensible to the average person which may or may not yet (but still might) be proven; concepts of love, loyalty, patriotism, truth, scientific elegance, known, discussed and (not fully) understood but fundamentally ''non-[[Measurement|quantifiable]]''. The power of an invisible magnetic field, which is not matter, to move some physical material objects, which are matter, cannot be explained by the doctrine that only material objects exist and that only a material object can impact or move another material object. Some general studies in ''Physics'' such as [[mechanics]] and [[thermodynamics]] do not advert to the theories and methodology of [[Quantum mechanics]] because it has no direct bearing on those researches, but the whole realm of scientific study is incomplete without it. Philosophical naturalism is an inadequate, even inappropriate, approach to the study of the whole of reality, as a [[thermometer]] is an inappropriate instrument for measuring the strength of the sun's [[Gravitation|gravitational force]] in the [[solar system]] or the [[density]] of [[planet]]ary [[Mass (science)|mass]]. Some aspects of human behavior and human [[psychology]] are still acknowledged by scientists to be "not (yet) predictable", and suggestive of [[free will]], but which for now are assessed according to the theories of "[[Behavioral psychology|behaviorism]]", and these are known from their evident effects to be part of existence and therefore within nature (natural). From this may be offered [[Extrapolation|extrapolated]] support for the reasonable possibility of invisible beings and intelligences who act with free will, and are powerfully able to interact with and intervene in nature and in human affairs: [[spirit]]s, [[angels]], [[demons]], [[God]].  

If "Nature" is defined as ''existence'' and ''reality'' and whatever exists is real and natural, whether it is uncreated or created, then [[logic]]ally God as the natural uncreated cause and sustainer of all natural creation is the ''meta''-natural or ''preternatural''<ref name=preter/> ground of existence, and it is from this that the existence of God is natural and God is a natural Being who cannot be classified as a ''super''-natural being who exists outside of existence and reality, which ''therefore'' would be an absolute [[contradiction]], and it is in the sense that nature ''is'' existence and existence is natural that the naturalists are correct in rejecting the supernatural as a possibility existing ''outside'' of nature. See [[Essay: Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?]].

If "Nature" is defined as ''existence'' and ''reality'' and whatever exists is real and natural, whether it is uncreated or created, then [[logic]]ally God as the natural uncreated cause and sustainer of all natural creation is the ''meta''-natural or ''preternatural''<ref name=preter/> [[Ground of being|ground of existence]], and it is from this that the existence of God is natural and God is a natural Being who cannot be classified as a ''super''-natural being who exists outside of existence and reality, which ''therefore'' would be an absolute [[contradiction]], and it is in the sense that nature ''is'' existence and existence is natural and the laws of physics solely limited to a spaciotemporal universe do not exhaust all the possible laws of existence that the naturalists are correct in rejecting the supernatural as a possibility existing ''outside'' of nature. See [[Essay: Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?]].

There are also documented cases of former nonbelievers and well-known militant atheists such as [[Will Durant]],

There are also documented cases of former nonbelievers and well-known militant atheists such as [[Will Durant]],