RE: Why materialists are predominantly materialists
September 16, 2016 at 6:49 am
(This post was last modified: September 16, 2016 at 8:05 am by Pat Mustard.
Edit Reason: Swapped physical for philosophical. It's what I meant to rite
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(September 15, 2016 at 11:31 pm)Bunburryist Wrote: Being an atheist and NOT a materialist (and so being a REAL outsider!), I have always had an interest in the relationship between atheism and materialism, on the one hand, and between materialism and science on the other. Where as most atheists (and non-atheists) conflate materialism and science, I see religion and materialism as BOTH being non-scientific worldviews.
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.
I am a materialist because materialism is the only philosophical worldview that is empiracly verifiable.
Oh and an axiom which underpins the whole of science cannot by definition be unscientific.
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