RE: Why materialists are predominantly materialists
September 16, 2016 at 12:09 am
(This post was last modified: September 16, 2016 at 12:13 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(September 15, 2016 at 11:31 pm)Bunburryist Wrote: Where as most atheists (and non-atheists) conflate materialism and science, I see religion and materialism as BOTH being non-scientific worldviews.I haven't seen much of that, but I don't know many atheists.
Quote:Before I post my website which is composed of a number of talks where I explain my understanding that the materialist worldview is wrong (which I will do when I reach my quota of 30 posts!) I'd like to ask materialists to explain if and why they believe materialism is either necessary to atheism, or at least an important aspect of the view.That gods get caught up in the spray of materialism is an effect of their having been placed there by credulous idiots who thought it was an escape clause . Regardless, atheism is not a statement of belief regarding the immaterial. That methodological materialism is a fundamental and necessary assumption of science, otoh, isn't an open discussion. Describing materialism as "non-scientific" is absurd.
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