Mdmathis6:”There, there little scientist...”
There, there little nincompoop...don’t bother your pretty head with matters you don’t comprehend.
What? You don’t enjoy being patronized?
The fact is, you have no clue what I believe, so you assume, and assume incorrectly.
Reasonisfaith’s statement, stripped of it’s qualifiers, is based on not just a lie, a d*mn*d lie.
Stripped of it’s qualifiers, the statement would read, in effect: “metaphysical and methodological naturalism are the same thing, and that is atheism.”
Seems to me this lie is being told today, not only by atheists themselves, but also by (instead of “fundamentalists” let me call them) literalists, who simply wish to discredit the entire scientific enterprise, by labeling it all as “atheist”.
So, in post #55, I don’t call Reasonisfaith a liar, merely point to the d*mn*d lie on which his/her statement is based.
I believe the distinctions between methodological and metaphysical naturalism need to be made and defended AT ALL COSTS.
Do you disagree?
“God told Noah to build him an arkylarky” Your Sunday School students would love that song!
Interesting there was never a direct commandment against Patronization in any holy book... prohibitions against lying, stealing, ect but never against patronization. It might come under the classification of having “a haughty spirit” or the definitions of pride perhaps.
Christ thanked the Father for hiding his wisdom away from the wise of this world and revealing it to babes.
Perhaps you ought to become a Sunday School teacher, you might learn something from the children that will make you a better person of science!