(April 6, 2013 at 1:58 am)Tex Wrote: Modern science used to be called metaphysics because people wanted to know how trees absorb water or whatever. They have since separated science and metaphysics due to the growth of empiricism, which is that only material things exist.It's not that science and metaphysics are separating, it's more that the "need" for metaphysics is shrinking.
The more we learn the less need there is for metaphysical explanations for everything. Or for anything for that matter.