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To: Alamo-Girl
As I said before, my beef with science is that it should pitch methodological naturalism and instead only declare the axioms or postulates that are appropriate for a particular investigation.

I a sense, I beleive they have. Methodological naturalism declares a set of axioms that are appropriate for all investingations. The proposition at hand seems to be that biology should be exempt so that philosophical arguments can be entered against ToE.

109 posted on 10/25/2009 3:42:05 PM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: tacticalogic; betty boop
You say "philosophical" arguments, I say "mathematical" arguments. But the affect is the same.
110 posted on 10/25/2009 7:46:52 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: tacticalogic; Alamo-Girl
Methodological naturalism declares a set of axioms that are appropriate for all investingations. The proposition at hand seems to be that biology should be exempt so that philosophical arguments can be entered against ToE.

Question, tacticalogic: Was methodological naturalism the scientific approach that Darwin used?

116 posted on 10/26/2009 7:58:28 AM PDT by betty boop (Without God man neither knows which way to go, nor even understands who he is. —Pope Benedict XVI)
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