RE: Theists: What is the most compelling argument you have heard for Atheism?
March 21, 2017 at 2:08 pm
(This post was last modified: March 21, 2017 at 2:17 pm by Mister Agenda.)
Neo-Scholastic Wrote:Mister Agenda Wrote:Methodological naturalism isn't a presupposition, and that's the kind of naturalism you'll find around here. Just give us one unnatural thing, just one, that stands up to scrutiny; and we'll change our minds.
We did. You didn't.
I must have blinked. What was it?
SteveII Wrote:1. It seems you are unfamiliar with methodological naturalism--with is by definition a presupposition. It might be justified in the lab to employ methodological naturalism, it is a not justified in the social sciences (including history and psychology). By doing so, you are making a claim about the world that you cannot prove: namely, there is no supernatural.
Methodological naturalism makes no truth claim. It is a method, a strategy, used in science for pragmatic reasons.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.