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Francis Collins: A Methodological Materialist When He Feels Like It
Imagine a boy who tells a girl he could climb to Jupiter because a natural ladder stretches from our planet to it.
Stephen Meyer Explains “Exotic Naturalism”
Atheists are multiplying exotic and unobserved entities to hold at bay a much simpler and more reasonable explanation for the evidence.
Dump the Metaphysics — How About Methodological Regularism?
Science doesn’t need methodological naturalism. It doesn’t need methodological theism, either.
Naturalism Under the Microscope
Methodological naturalism — the philosophical doctrine that scientific explanations must refer only to natural causes — is the central and most controversial concept in all discussions of evolution, creationism, and intelligent design.
Coyne’s Confusion: How a Prominent Scientific Atheist Can’t Agree With Himself About Metaphysical Naturalism
Advocates of Intelligent Design and others who practice skepticism toward the pomposities of much of modern Darwinism can be forgiven a little amusement when they see their detractors engaged in an internal squabble that highlights the philosophical absurdities of the scientistic rationalism that pervades much of modern Darwinism. Ever since the publication of Jerry Coyne’s New Republic article, “Seeing and Believing,” the Darwinists have been engaged in a three-way tug of war over the issue of “accommodationism.” The gnawing and snarling has pitted three camps against each other in a contest over the right way to wage the PR war against the Intelligent Design movement for the hearts and minds of the scientifically naive. The Three Non-Amigos There are, first, Read More ›