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To: Smogger
" Materialistic/methodological?"

Yes, words have meanings, at least to us.

"Naturalism is a philisophical point of view and it's adherents regard religion as the enemy."

Your paranoia is showing.

"It's adherents believe among other things that science lays claim to an exclusive approach to knowledge, and that people do NOT have free will, as we are merely a collection of atoms at the mercy of various physical influences (biological, physical, environmental.)"

It says no such thing.
396 posted on 12/20/2005 10:16:32 AM PST by CarolinaGuitarman ("There is a grandeur in this view of life...")
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To: CarolinaGuitarman
I suggest you look up naturalism, and while your at it look up Humanism, the cornerstone of their belief system is naturalism.

From Naturalism.org "Tenets of Naturalism:"

Naturalism as a world view is based on the premise that knowledge about what exists and about how things work is best achieved through the sciences, not personal revelation or religious tradition....

...Human beings act the way they do because of the various influences that shape them, whether these be biological or social, genetic or environmental. We do not have the capacity to act outside the causal connections that link us in every respect to the rest of the world. This means we do not have what many people call free will, the ability to cause our behavior without being fully caused in turn.

and elsewhere:

The naturalist view of ourselves is of course very different from traditional religious or supernatural understandings, and it has profound implications. We don’t have souls that continue after death....We don’t have free will in the sense of being able to choose or decide without being fully caused in our choices or decisions.

Please spare me the ad hominems about paranoia.

BTW: Who is the "us" to which you are referring?

461 posted on 12/20/2005 10:38:56 AM PST by Smogger
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