(April 14, 2017 at 1:55 pm)Harry Nevis Wrote:(April 14, 2017 at 1:24 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: How reality works may not be (and probably isn't ) based on the current materialist paradigm. The dividing line between supernatural and natural is not fixed. It changes based on one's understanding of what is considered an allowable explanation.
Just what is that probability? Since we have no evidence of anything supernatural, that dividing line must be a brick wall.
When first introduced Newton's law of gravity was considered supernatural because the prevailing wisdom at the time what that bodily interaction required physical things to bump against each other. Proponents of "naturalism" are really just explaining away the uncanny and inexplicable phenomena that do not fit the physical reductionist paradigm. Consider for a moment how the term materialism has changed over time in order to adapt it to new findings in physics. Anyone promoting 19th century materialism today would be laughed at. The 20th century version of materialism is becoming just as untenable and archaic. The more we learn about matter, the more it seems to dissolve into structured nothingness.
