[tacticalogic]

Seems to me there are many things which cannot be reduced to offer a logical explanation based on physical causation. Among these are the love between a man and a woman, that one person may be crushed by an event that another finds inspiring, the origin of space/time and therefore physical causality itself and so on.

There are indeed.

It's been submitted that we shouldn't be applying a "template" to our view of reality that limits us to only considering physical causes.

I don't necessarily have a problem with that. What I do have a problem with is removing that template, with the intent of immediatly applying another one to the non-physical causes.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thank you for sharing your insights, dear tacticalogic!

I don't necessarily have a problem with that. What I do have a problem with is removing that template, with the intent of immediatly applying another one to the non-physical causes.

How about simply approaching science the way mathematicians approach problems? Which is to say, declare upfront whatever axioms apply to the particular investigation and otherwise keep an open mind.