[jennyp]

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

They might have used naturalistic assumption, but not materialistic assumption. There is a difference.

FYI, that's not the "official" view of the ID hierarchy...

#2. What is Naturalism?

It's another word for materialism. There are no discernible differences. Kind of like "soda and pop," or "shrimp and prawns." Naturalism states that nature is "all there is."

[Hajman]

Sorry. You're correct. I used the wrong term. In concept, I was talking about the differences between the belief that everything we observe should be attempted to be explained with science (though science should admit it's own limitations with explaining everything), and the belief that nothing but what we see exists, and so everything can, and has to be, explained by science.

-The Hajman-