(July 4, 2012 at 10:23 am)CliveStaples Wrote: The Christian scientists I know see no problem with methodological naturalism. An atheist acquaintance of mine insists that being a Christian makes me a worse mathematician--that I'm somehow yielding my rationality. I don't think it's true, but what would I know? Crazy people don't know they're crazy, right?
FWIW, I don't beleive that it is necessarily so at all. There are certainly Christian scientists who are crackpots - just as there are non-theists who are as well.