RE: Atheist VS Naturalist - the latter sounds more appealing to me...
May 26, 2020 at 5:33 pm
(This post was last modified: May 26, 2020 at 5:34 pm by Belacqua.)
(May 26, 2020 at 4:40 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote: is there a way to distinguish between a supernatural cause and a natural cause as of yet undiscovered?
Not that I can think of.
What I want to do is avoid begging the question, as poly does.
He says that even if there is a complete lack of naturalistic evidence, he would consider supernatural explanations to be failures. It would be "throwing up your hands" and accepting defeat. Even in the event of no natural evidence, he would just assume that there must be some.
If you accept that it is a metaphysical commitment on your part that any explanation must be natural, that's fine. But it's not provable.
