Fact

Nature tends toward homeostasis. We can either find a way to work with it or try to fight against it. Because nature is such a powerful force, it seems like the more difficult path is to fight it.

Nature has always been and remains neutral. Literature got much better once writers realized that and wrote to reflect that - i.e. Stephen Crane.

It isn't nice to mess with mother nature.

Yes in whole agreement with that. And don't even get me started on the meaningless organic movement.

But in one other sense, not really the one the article is about, nature is not neutral, and that is, in the sense that the study of it, as a learning experience, leads to greater understanding and less misunderstanding than does the study of gods.

The word "natural" has always been an odd one for me. Uranium is natural, so is cyanide. "Natural" seems like more of a marketing term.

"Like gods, a nod to the natural may have gotten us this far but may no longer be needed." ??

We are part of nature and if we disrupt it we pay the consequences , eg corona virus and global warming.

Physics and matter simply doesn't care. It is that simple.

For a lot of folks the term "natural" is more of a dogma than well thought out decisions. The article illustrated that very well.

I agree wholeheartedly with the article. Actually everything in the universe is natural. The sister of “natural” is “organic”. If someone tries to sell me a food by saying that it is organic, I reply that I am allergic to organic and eat only inorganic foods.

There is one exception that I know of. Natural peanut butter, made with only ground roasted peanuts, is absolutely superior to the regular kind. That’s because normally the oil is taken out and replaced with a cheaper oil.

Natural peanut butter costs more but is extremely good, and peanut oil is perhaps the healthiest oil there is.

I agree. This means also that there is no such thing as good or evil.