The idea that humans naturally evolved to be religious is funny. Do you think that mammals naturally trend to theism, or is it a general vertebrate thing? — Nope, our ancestors were quite actively selected for religion, with fire and sword.
In this sense, nothing that is is natural. However, understanding the fitness function requires models that are not described by the natural sciences.
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or everything is. possibly why "all natural" has so little meaning.
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I think of it in terms of descriptive frames: biology is physical, but physics has relatively little to say about organisms. We might think of biology as a special subfield of physics, but biology does not depend on physics very much. Social sciences are similar.
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