But this season, with the Top 10 debut of ABC's eerie Lost, there are signs that viewers are ready for less naturalism and more supernaturalism.
I wish the promise of the Enlightenment would be fulfilledthat supernaturalism would be replaced by scientific investigation and reason.
But the Vatican response also reined in the flip-side of such enthusiasm: unfettered religious hysteria that can occur when white-hot supernaturalism seems to rupture the staid .