[Aquinasfan]

Ah, so it was correct for previous generations of scientists to use the naturalistic assumption, but today we shouldn't?

Actually, modern science was born out of the Christian worldview. Stanley Jaki makes a convincing argument that the development of Newtonian physics followed from the promulgation of the dogma of "creation from nothing," and the Christian idea of an orderly universe reflecting the ordering Mind of its Creator.

Materialistic reductionism hamstrings natural science unnecessarily. Bad philosophy makes bad science (i.e. 'vestigal organs').

[week 71]

Actually, modern science was born out of the Christian worldview. Stanley Jaki makes a convincing argument that the development of Newtonian physics followed from the promulgation of the dogma of "creation from nothing," and the Christian idea of an orderly universe reflecting the ordering Mind of its Creator. Materialistic reductionism hamstrings natural science unnecessarily. Bad philosophy makes bad science (i.e. 'vestigal organs').

I agree with the above 100%. I know Newton wrote more commentary on the book of Daniel then about science. Could you expound more on what you ment regarding vestigal organs

[edsheppa]

Materialistic reductionism hamstrings natural science unnecessarily.

To the contrary. Reductionism has been a supremely useful constraint. The world is simply too complicated to analyze all at once.