[Alamo-Girl]

My "original question" was, essentially, "If the methodology of the scientific method (methodoligal naturalism) is not acceptable, what exactly does it need to be changed to or replaced with to rectify that situation?"

I already gave my reply at 512 (copied below) - so I'll back off for now and come back to the thread later tonight and try not to stir up more side issues.

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.

[tacticalogic]

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.

It's also submitted that science shouldn't limit an investigation to only considering a limited set of possibilities. Declaring those axioms does exaclty that.