[Alamo-Girl]

The bottom line is that many statements made by theologians, philosophers and metaphysicians cannot be subjected to the scientific method, e.g. falsified by empirical tests and observations made by microscope or telescope.

Conversely, many statements made by science cannot be received as objective truth, i.e. methodological naturalism is the reduced boundary of the scientific method.

The epistemic divide must be respected from both sides, or if it isn't then "methodological naturalism" must be trashcanned.

Scientists like Dawkins, Singer, Pinker, Lewontin and Monod do not respect the epistemic divide when they posit the theory of evolution as objective truth which by definition cannot be subjected to the scientific method (observer problem.) When they do this, these scientists reflect poorly on other scientists.

[grey_whiskers]

Scientists like Dawkins, Singer, Pinker, Lewontin and Monod do not respect the epistemic divide when they posit the theory of evolution as objective truth which by definition cannot be subjected to the scientific method (observer problem.) When they do this, these scientists reflect poorly on other scientists.

I beg to differ; it tends to reflect poorly on them. Like the old joke about peeing on yourself while wearing dark pants--it gives you a warm feeling but nobody notices.

Only with that crowd, they're wearing light khaki.

Cheers!