RE: Theists: What is the most compelling argument you have heard for Atheism?
March 21, 2017 at 2:45 pm
(March 21, 2017 at 2:08 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote:
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.
But it does when used in the social sciences! It assigns evolutionary theories by fiat (certainly not with any kind of proof) to questions like "how did religion evolve?", "how did morality evolve", etc. when a theistic worldview has very different answers to those questions.
