RE: Atheist VS Naturalist - the latter sounds more appealing to me...
May 24, 2020 at 7:48 pm
(This post was last modified: May 24, 2020 at 7:52 pm by Belacqua.)
(May 24, 2020 at 7:21 pm)Peebo-Thuhlu Wrote:(May 24, 2020 at 6:31 pm)Belacqua Wrote: 1) Science works really well because it uses methodological naturalism.
2) It excludes supernatural explanations a priori.
3) Therefore it never finds anything supernatural.
Therefore there is no such thing as the supernatural.
Uhm... Three does not neccesserily follow from two though, Bel.
Jus' sayin' is all.
Cheers,
Not at work.
If it excludes supernatural explanations, then no supernatural explanations will be found.
4) Doesn't follow from 3).
The point is that if we accept only methods which exclude the supernatural as determinant of truth, then we have pre-determined the kind of answer we will accept.
For some people, "that which can be demonstrated by science" = "that which is true." It works well in practice, but it begs the question.