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To: Sola Veritas

Uniformitarianism is the assumption that the same natural laws and processes that operate in the universe now have always operated in the universe in the past and apply everywhere in the universe.

Naturalism is the assumption that you first look for natural explanations for observed natural phenomom.

Let’s be clear about exactly what you are rejecting.


30 posted on 09/27/2014 9:39:05 PM PDT by JimSEA
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To: JimSEA

“the same natural laws and processes that operate in the universe now have always operated in the universe in the past”

Except for anything which is outside the time period beginning with the Big Bang.


32 posted on 09/27/2014 10:03:18 PM PDT by reasonisfaith ("...because they believed not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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I’ll acknowledge that your post doesn’t necessarily assume naturalism to be true.

But if a person wants to take naturalism seriously, just remember it requires the denial of things like thought, intentionality and self. None of these can exist if naturalism is true.


33 posted on 09/27/2014 10:10:03 PM PDT by reasonisfaith ("...because they believed not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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To: JimSEA
Naturalism is the assumption that you first only look for natural explanations for observed natural phenomom phenomena.

There, fixed it for ya.

40 posted on 09/29/2014 9:12:55 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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