N.Wells
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Joined: Oct. 2005
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| Quote | There is a well-known separation between 'methodological naturalism' and 'metaphysical naturalism'. Science is based on and requires the former.
This is not up for debate. |
Let me add to that. We mostly do not use methodological naturalism because of prior belief in it (i.e. metaphysical naturalism) but because of empirical experience. If when we searched for explanations of things, methodological naturalism tended not to produce reliable answers and accurate predictions, but close readings of religious texts had a better track record, then those of us who value accurate explanations would abandon methodological naturalism as an approach and shift to studying scripture.
As it is, deciphering scripture has had an absolutely horrible record of making accurate statements about the natural world (a record almost as bad as Gary's, in fact).
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