[Ethan Clive Osgoode]

Science, by definition, deals ONLY with the natural - material world. Anything outside that world -- anything spiritual, supernatural, divine, metaphysical, religious, moral, etc., even most philosophical questions, are outside the realms of science. Science can't and doesn't deal with those. So a scientific theory on the origins or evolution of life, by definition, must be a materialistic - natural theory.

Ernst Haeckel and Natural-Scientific Materialism , V.I. Lenin

[BroJoeK]

"Ernst Haeckel and Natural-Scientific Materialism , V.I. Lenin"

The word "science" goes back to ancient times. It has always been that branch of philosophy which deals with the natural material world, not the supernatural. Supernatural comes under metaphysics = "beyond physics".

I know, ECO, you desperately want to turn this into an argument of "Science versus Christianity." Then you could zero your rhetorical weapons and happily fire for effect, right?

But I'll remind you that the vast majority of Christians belong to denominations which have long since accepted the school of thought called "theistic evolution," which is also what I believe.

[YHAOS]

Ernst Haeckel and Natural-Scientific Materialism

Thanks for the website ref.