tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10584495.post3982935126677468574..comments2024-03-28T12:34:14.649-07:00Comments on dangerous idea: Larmer's essay on methodological naturalism Victor Repperthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10962948073162156902noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10584495.post-19558881031744531242016-04-25T13:27:03.811-07:002016-04-25T13:27:03.811-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.B. Prokophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10548980245078214688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10584495.post-91173711694904797832016-04-04T03:02:40.333-07:002016-04-04T03:02:40.333-07:00Answer to Larmer, I don't think methodological...Answer to Larmer, I don't think methodological naturalism is question begging iff it is approached purely as a scientific procedure. If we accept the framework of non-overlapping magisteria, then to speak in science as a scientist is not the same as speaking in theology as a theologian. We can compartmentalize an refrain from proposing extra natural causes but leave the explanation of such phenomena as can't be explained naturalistically to "unknown cause," when working in science.<br /><br />Then making theological statements is a different matter. That would include for itself it's own brand or conditional statement. There is a X such that X is not explained by naturalistic accounts, and as a theologian one might propose that X could be of divine cause. Of course the core doctrines of a faith, such as the resurrection in Christian terms, would have a stronger more declarative formulation. <br /><br />It is when the ideology of scientism begins imposing itself upon the field and demanding that there can be no non-naturalistic explanations, that method becomes metaphysics. It is the metaphysical assumptions imposed upon methodological statements that is question beggomg.Joseph Hinman (Metacrock)https://www.blogger.com/profile/06957529748541493998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10584495.post-51183326952184932352016-04-04T02:40:52.835-07:002016-04-04T02:40:52.835-07:00On the about methodological naturalism Loftus link...On the about methodological naturalism Loftus linked tovhis own essay on thye subject. I've written an answer to Loftus:<br /><br /><a href="http://metacrock.blogspot.com/2016/04/naturalisms-method-vs-metaphysics-my.html" rel="nofollow"><b>Answering Loftus on methodological naturalism</b></a>Joseph Hinman (Metacrock)https://www.blogger.com/profile/06957529748541493998noreply@blogger.com