“naturalism” as you promote it is an arbitrary and capricious concept.
There is no objective basis for calling anything that is purely assumed “natural.”
There is nothing legitimately scientific about relying on an assumption as a natural state.
You have a natural bent toward unscientific thinking.
You are completely unqualified to even discuss science.
I don't "promote" naturalism, I simply report what dictionaries, encyclopedias and other scholarly works say the word means, scientifically.
So you are not arguing against me so much as against all of Western Civilization, which has always made a profound distinction between the natural and super-natural realms.
editor-surveyor: "There is no objective basis for calling anything that is purely assumed 'natural.' "
So you keep asserting, without providing evidence.
Regardless, yours is a ridiculous idea since practically speaking, scientific "assumptions" are confirmed as true every minute of every day.
Which is not to claim that scientists today understand even a small fraction of "ultimate reality", or even that a large portion of "ultimate reality" can be described using methodologically naturalist assumptions.
I am only reporting what I've reported here from the beginning: once you leave the realm of "methodological naturalism" you are, by definition, also outside the realm of science.
editor-surveyor: "There is nothing legitimately scientific about relying on an assumption as a natural state."
I'll set aside the fact that your sentence makes no sense, assume that you intended it to make sense, and respond yet again: rightly or wrongly, by definition the word "science" means "natural explanations for natural processes", and nothing else.
Once you leave the natural realm, you also leave the realm of science.
In other words: for you to claim there is no "natural realm" is by definition also claiming there is no "science" -- the two cannot be separated.
editor-surveyor: "You have a natural bent toward unscientific thinking.
You are completely unqualified to even discuss science."
Sorry FRiend, but you live in an Alternate Universe, where you can invent your own little words, definitions and rules.
Of course, you are entitled to your own little realm, inside your own little head, but if you ever decide venture outside & explore the real world -- the natural world, the scientific world -- well, just let me know, and I'll be happy to explain to you how it works.
;-)