[Phaedrus]

...the metaphysical naturalist (atheist) claim to being rational rests on the worldview that: "all that there is" is all that exists in nature.

That worldview is not shared by many (if not most) physicists and mathematicians - the most epistemologically zealous of all the disciplines. It is also not shared by most philosophers and the general public.

Well said. I would add that the Materialist cultural filter is strong enough that whatever glimpse of the immaterial appears in nature, and such glipses do occur, is mocked, discredited or ignored by the High Priests of Secular Humanism. But they have only words.

[Phaedrus]

glipses = glimpses ... Wish I could spell ... or type ... or both.

[betty boop]

I would add that the Materialist cultural filter is strong enough that whatever glimpse of the immaterial appears in nature, and such glipses do occur, is mocked, discredited or ignored by the High Priests of Secular Humanism.

That cultural filter is so strong that, in most cases, you couldn't pry it off with a crow bar. :^)

Sometimes I think that Darwin was right -- and that the adherents of materialist opinion/ideology are a separate line of human development, a new species altogether! :^) Unfortunately, I'm not sure that willfully self-imposed narrow-mindedness will translate as an increase in survival fitness in the long run....

But of course, Phaedrus -- I'm just joking....

Thanks so much for the ping!

[Alamo-Girl]

Thank you so much for your insight and for the kudos!

I would add that the Materialist cultural filter is strong enough that whatever glimpse of the immaterial appears in nature, and such glipses do occur, is mocked, discredited or ignored by the High Priests of Secular Humanism. But they have only words.

I agree that the information we receive has been highly filtered. Most disturbing to me is that anomalous data may either not be addressed at all, footnoted or glossed over.

WRT to the mocking – there is more poison in the handle than the point.