Evil is a metaphysical reality. It is built into the structure of the universe. That's the way the universe was made.

邪恶是一种超自然的存在，它是宇宙构造的组成部分,宇宙就是这样的。

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Maybe the better arguments for the soul focus not on the everyday but on the unusual, on the supernatural.

或许更好支持灵魂存在的论证应着眼于,不寻常的,超自然的现象,而非日常所见

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We don't have a lot of supernatural interference in this story.

我们这个故事里看不到很多超自然的干扰。

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So these moments of landscape description offer up that consistently Christian-inflected theory of the universe, that sense of transcendence as structure, as something that's moving inexorably, that will take all time to complete.

通过这些景象的描述,我们可以看到一种,一直受到基督教影响的,关于宇宙的理论，这种理论以超自然的感觉为主体，就像一些不为人的意志而转移，需要我们穷其一生去完成的事。

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They come so instinctively and easily it's difficult, and sort of unnatural, to step back and explore them scientifically but if we're going to be scientists and look at the mind from a scientific perspective we have to get a sort of distance from ourselves and ask questions that other people would not normally think to ask.

他们来得如此本能，容易,这是困难的，有某种超自然韵味，退后，从科学角度研究他们,但如果我们打算成为科学家,从科学角度,看待心理,我们需同我们自身保持某种距离,问问题,问其他人通常不想问的。

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Of course, there are various other things we could appeal to in terms of supernatural occurrences, right?

当然,还有很多其他的东西,我们可以诉诸,超自然事件,不是吗

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Maybe there are certain supernatural things about communication from the dead or near-death experiences that need to be explained in terms of the soul.

也许有某些超自然的关于,亡者或是弥留之人的交流,或是,濒死体验,需要借助灵魂才能解释得通

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One group of arguments for the existence of a soul says, "We need to posit a soul in order to explain something, whether it's something everyday or something supernatural."

主张灵魂存在的一方声称,我们必须假设灵魂存在,才能解释一些,司空见惯或是超自然的现象

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Is the supernatural, dualist explanation the more likely one?

是超自然的,二元论的解释

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Spoiler alert. And he has a standing offer, he says, "I'll pay whatever the amount is, $10,000 to the first person who can document some effect done in supernatural terms that I can't reproduce through trickery."

他给出一个长期悬赏,他说,我将不计报酬,给第一个在我面前展示,我用魔术无法再现的超自然,现象的人10000美元

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I'm going to start with those and then I'll turn, eventually, to another set of possible things that might need explaining, which we might think of as extraordinary, supernatural things.

我将从这里开始,然后转而讨论,另一些,需要给予解释的现象,那些我们可能视之为异乎寻常的,超自然现象

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