It is quite another thing to suggest that these are human capacities that lie squarely in “nature,” whatever that is. This is actually a very old Christian conviction that dates back as far as 400 CE and to the central figure of Augustine, who clearly understood that what we consider against nature depends on our limited views of what nature is. The implication is that the “miracle” or “prodigy” would in fact become perfectly “natural,” if we but understood that natural world.
