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To: js1138

[To the best of my knowledge, no one on DLR’s ping list accepts methodological naturalism]

Since when is methodological naturalism the gold standard by which scinetists are either accepted or rejected? I thought science sought to discover truth, not priori belief about something? Who’s antiscience here again?


323 posted on 06/01/2007 11:00:12 AM PDT by CottShop
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To: CottShop
Since when is methodological naturalism the gold standard by which scinetists are either accepted or rejected?

At least since Isaac Newton. I don't know of any exceptions.

330 posted on 06/01/2007 11:19:06 AM PDT by js1138 (The absolute seriousness of someone who is terminally deluded.)
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Since when is methodological naturalism the gold standard by which scientists are either accepted or rejected?

It would be funny if it were, because Coyoteman is an advocate of Kuhnian irrationalism, which is certainly at odds with anything Newton ever wrote about science. And Newton was not a methodological naturalist (that term was coined in the 1980s) as he believed that God intervenes to adjust the orbits of planets, and other odd non-naturalistic things.

388 posted on 06/04/2007 3:50:36 AM PDT by Ethan Clive Osgoode
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