(March 20, 2012 at 8:04 am)KichigaiNeko Wrote: I am thinking that maybe the use of the word philosophy/ical and scientific/ method are being confused here? And further that theologians have no use for the scientific method that is applied to the matter mentioned in genkaus' post??
Correct me genkaus if I have read your post wrongly
I'm not sure what you have understood, but here's my stance.
Suppose you say that diseases are caused by demons. Now, diseases are a biological phenomenon and to the extent demons can affect those, the existence if demons becomes a biological question as well. The mode of inquiry of this hypothesis can be from two angles. Either you can study the biology of a diseased body - studying its cause, state etc. and determine if anything that can conceivably be called a demon comes anywhere into the picture. Or you can start by studying demons and their existence with respect to biology and see if they could possibly affect it in such a manner. Either way, the field of study is biology.