[betty boop]

Methodological materialism is a 'tool' that carries the philosophical baggage of atheism. I believe it brings no benefit and puts unnecessary limits on science — it should be discarded and I see no need for it to be replaced with anything. It tries to explain away the Big Bang and a universe fine tuned for life with the 'multiverse' — the only merit to the multiverse theory is that it means there is a universe somewhere out there where Richard Dawkins is a rabid Creationist — but it's still ultimately meaningless.

Indeed, dear Heartlander. Well said!

[tacticalogic]

So we can just go back to doing things the way the did in the 14th century. Who does that? Oh, wait....