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	Materialism - LoveToKnow 1911
		Cosmological materialism is that form of the doctrine in which the dominant motive is the formation of a comprehensive world-scheme: the Stoics and Epicureans were cosmological materialists.
		The cause of medical materialism is the natural bias of physicians towards explaining the health and disease of mind by the health and disease of body.
		The chief definite periods of materialism are the pre-Socratic and the post-Aristotelian in Greece, the 18th century in France, and in Germany the,9th century from about 1850 to 1880.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Materialism (579 words)

	Scientific Materialism - Does God Exist? - SepOct00
		Scientific materialism places all of man's emphasis and purpose on the here and now which is logically destructive.
		The summary of all this is that scientific materialism leads to immorality or at least to a moral code that is meaningless.
		Scientific materialism is a philosophy that has grown out of science, but it is not science, and the fact that it passes itself off as such is really the great tragedy of our culture.
	www.doesgodexist.org /SepOct00/ScientificMaterialism.html (1130 words)

	Materialism
		Materialism is the simplest (or most simplistic) explanation of reality: the belief that all that exists is the physical; there are no higher realities; no psychic or spiritual truths independent of the physical world.
		A slightly longer definition: Philosophical materialism (physicalism) is the metaphysical view that there is only one substance in the universe and that substance is physical, empirical or material.
		All of which proves, not that materialism is wrong, only that, as in the insightful parable of the blind men and the elephant, it pertains to one aspect of Reality, not the Totality.
	www.kheper.net /topics/worldviews/materialism.htm (2425 words)

	Materialism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In philosophy, materialism is that form of physicalism which holds that the only thing that can truly be said to exist is matter; that fundamentally, all things are composed of material and all phenomena are the result of material interactions.
		As a theory, materialism belongs to the class of monist ontology.
		Materialism is sometimes allied with the methodological principle of reductionism, according to which the objects or phenomena individuated at one level of description, if they are genuine, must be explicable in terms of the objects or phenomena at some other level of description -- typically, a more general level than the reduced one.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Materialism (989 words)

	Retelling the Story of Science
		Materialism regards itself as scientific, and indeed is often called “scientific materialism,” even by its opponents, but it has no legitimate claim to be part of science.
		In other words, the scientific materialist maintains that there is a conflict between science and religion, and that it is intrinsic and a priori, in the sense that it would exist even if science had not yet made any definite discoveries about the world.
		However, the Scientific Revolution occurred when it was realized that final causes could be dispensed with altogether in physics and that phenomena could be adequately explained in a completely mechanistic way in terms of preceding physical events.
	www.catholiceducation.org /links/jump.cgi?ID=3749 (7723 words)

	Scientific Materialism 1868
		Both in a material and in an intellectual point of view it has produced, and it is destined to produce, immense changes—vast social ameliorations, and vast alterations in the popular conception of the origin, rule, and governance of natural things.
		The scientific idea is that the molecules act upon each other without the intervention of slave labor; that they attract each other, and repel each other, at certain definite points, or poles, and in certain definite directions; and that the pyramidal form is the result of this play of attraction and repulsion.
		Given this expansion, with the necessary molecular data, and the chick might be deduced as rigorously and as logically from the egg as the existence of Neptune from the disturbances of Uranus, or as conical refraction from the undulatory theory of light.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles20/science-6.shtml (4254 words)

	Socialism: Utopian and Scientific (Introduction - Materialism)
		Among the qualities inherent in matter, motion is the first and foremost, not only in the form of mechanical and mathematical motion, but chiefly in the form of an impulse, a vital spirit, a tension — or a 'qual', to use a term of Jakob Bohme's [2] — of matter.
		Not in one single instance, so far, have we been led to the conclusion that our sense-perception, scientifically controlled, induce in our minds ideas respecting the outer world that are, by their very nature, at variance with reality, or that there is an inherent incompatibility between the outer world and our sense-perceptions of it.
		Thus, as far as he is a scientific man, as far as he knows anything, he is a materialist; outside his science, in spheres about which he knows nothing, he translates his ignorance into Greek and calls it agnosticism.
	www.marxists.org /archive/marx/works/1880/soc-utop/int-mat.htm (2506 words)

	Science, Materialism, and False Consciousness (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Materialism, as it will be discussed here, assumes that the only entities existing in the world are atoms, aggregates of atoms and that the only properties and relations are the properties of, and the relations between, such aggregates.
		Materialism, the philosophical position, is in the main a stance that rests entirely on endorsement, avowal, and dismissal of certain approaches to life.
		Therefore, to accept the scientific enterprise at all, as one of rational inquiry to which we are committed, is to adopt an attitude of detachment with respect to any and all empirical claims.
	webware.princeton.edu /vanfraas/mss/SciencMat.htm (11180 words)

	Crisis Magazine
		Empirical science and scientific materialism are consciously or unconsciously intertwined by most modern thinkers, and so the distinction is crucial.
		Scientific materialism has a “plot,” Barr argues, a story of the development of scientific knowledge that makes religious belief increasingly implausible as the evidences of science pile up.
		Barr’s argument isn’t that these scientific advances somehow prove that traditional theistic religions are true, but rather that major impediments to theism’s fundamental claims about the cosmos and the nature of reality have been removed—and in some cases those claims even strengthened—by developments in 20th-century science.
	www.crisismagazine.com /june2004/book5.htm (1056 words)

	www.rallycomrades.net
		In this context, scientific materialism is a method by which we can not only understand the world, but also change it.
		Both basic research and applied research are necessary for the healthy growth of scientific research, but their relative importance varies in relationship to the maturity of a particular field of research and to their relationship to the means of production.
		The dichotomy between basic research and applied research allows the DI to state in its “Wedge Document” that it “is not attacking science or the scientific method,” rather it is “challenging the philosophy of scientific materialism and the false scientific theories that support it.” But this is not the case.
	www.lrna.org /2-pt/article4.htm (1571 words)

	Design (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Agents Under Fire, Materialism and the Rationality of Science by Angus Menuge (Rowman and Littlefield) This book aims to provide a rigorous defense of the intuition that scientific materialism is incoherent because it either eliminates or artificially constricts resources presupposed by materialistic scientific inquiry.
		In other words, scientific materialism rests on certain implicit foundational presuppositions that it is inherently unable to sustain and that are in fact incompatible with its central claims.
		In particular, scientific materialism aims to show that the appearance of intelligent design in nature is illusory because undirected and automatic forces are sufficient to account for it.
	www.wordtrade.com /science/designR.htm (4054 words)

	Naturalism (philosophy) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Subsequent scientific revolutions would remove much of the remaining theistic baggage from scientific investigation culminating in the development of modern biology and geology which rejected a literal interpretation of the prevailing origin beliefs of the wider society's religion.
		There is no better method than the scientific method for judging the claims of science, and there is neither any need nor any place for a "first philosophy", such as (abstract) metaphysics or epistemology, that could stand behind and justify science or the scientific method.
		Scientific materialism, methodological materialism or sometimes scientific naturalism are interchangeable dysphemisms for methodological naturalism.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Scientific_materialism (2223 words)

	Why Be Blinded by Science and Materialism? from The Institute for Real God
		But the scientific method (as it is practiced in the current, political climate of scientific materialism) limits itself to the
		Scientific materialism thus is only really capable of making findings about the objective aspects of reality.
		It is not science, although it tends to be associated with the scientific movement.
	www.realgod.org /scientific_materialism/reductionism.html (2524 words)

	Psychiatry and Materialism as a Modern Belief System - Orthodoxy, Ideology, Modern Mythology Parading as Science
		Materialism, the modern "scientific approach" to the social sciences, humanism, realism, pragmatism, or whatever you want to call these are simply ideologies, containing unique combinations of ideas and beliefs, and more often than not, are also orthodoxies - demanding that one conform to certain traditional or currently accepted beliefs and ideas.
		Materialism, just as any religion, is only a unique set of axioms, assumptions, opinions and beliefs about the nature of Man, his world, the universe, and how Man relates to his world and the universe.
		The proponents of "materialism", psychiatry, psychology and modern "science" believe completely, and in exactly the same way, that their ideas are "modern" and "correct", and also similarly justify their actions because it is the "truth" (to them).
	www.sntp.net /materialism_ideology.htm (3829 words)

	Dictionary of Philosophy of Mind - eliminativism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Other criticisms are that the principles and scientific evidence used to justify eliminativism imply a pragmatist theory of truth, which does not support the traditional view of truth and reference that eliminativism presupposes.
		Searle, in his 1992, dismisses eliminative materialism by pointing out that if the entities posited by folk psychology don't exist because they cannot be reduced smoothly to the entities of science, we must also deny ontological status to split level ranch houses, tennis rackets, golf clubs, etc. (p.47).
		The pragmatist, unlike the scientific realist, can dissolve this problem by saying that alchemy does possess some epistemic merit, and the only reason that we no longer refer to the alchemical essences is that we now possess a better theory which has more epistemic merit.
	www.artsci.wustl.edu /~philos/MindDict/eliminativism.html (9937 words)

	The Fourteen Scientific Fallacies in in Swedenborg's AC 5084--Implications for Science Education
		In a prior article on the existence of scientific revelations in the Word[1], it was argued that science education for the NC plays an important role in one's ability to read and understand the Writings.
		A person on earth is thus partly material, partly spiritual, and it is the spiritual that survives at the death of the material body.
		Instead, the Word has revealed the scientific fact that the heat and light in stars or their flares, are uncreate substances, therefore not material.
	www.soc.hawaii.edu /leonj/leonj/leonpsy/instructor/fallacies.html (3381 words)

	Eastern and Western Spiritual Alternatives
		Scientific materialism is based on the premise that nothing can be known except that which is observed through the five senses or measured by machines.
		The solution to the human dilemma, according to the logical implications of materialism, is to control the inner urges through such things as drugs and behavior modification and to control the outer forces through direct manipulation of political, social, and economic structures.
		The advent of scientific thought in the West brought to an end the ignorance and superstition of the Middle Ages which caused untold misery and suffering.
	www.rosicrucian.com /zineen/pamen016.htm (2791 words)

	Origins of Scientific Materialism
		War grew up between science and materialism just as soon as the fetters placed by religion upon science were removed and the latter was permitted to deal with facts in nature.
		The foundations of modern materialism were clearly laid in the scholastic philosophy of the thirteenth century.
		Newton's interest in religion was as profound as his interest in physics and he was the author of nearly as many theological treatises as scientific classics, but his conception of God was inconsistent with his method in physics and was thereby doomed.
	www.wisdomworld.org /setting/materialism.html (3454 words)

	Why Be Blinded by Science and Materialism? from The Institute for Real God
		Scientific materialism is a strange philosophy for everyone to be attached to.
		There is no absolute address to the problem of human suffering or unhappiness; but it is presumed that increasingly greater understanding of (and control over) material reality corresponds to a lessening of human suffering (at least to the degree that that suffering takes a material form).
		Materialism suggests that death is simply when the battery dies and the “body-mind” machine (thereby) comes to a halt.
	www.realgod.org /scientific_materialism/index.html (996 words)

	The Unraveling of Scientific Materialism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The reason for opposition to scientific accounts of our origins, according to Lewontin, is not that people are ignorant of facts, but that they have not learned to think from the right starting point.
		Dawkins’ vulgarizations of Darwinism speak of nothing in evolution but an inexorable ascendancy of genes that are selectively superior, while the entire body of technical advance in experimental and theoretical evolutionary genetics of the last fifty years has moved in the direction of emphasizing nonselective forces in evolution.
		Darwinism is based on an a priori commitment to materialism, not on a philosophically neutral assessment of the evidence.
	www.firstthings.com /ftissues/ft9711/johnson.html (2152 words)

	Philosophical materialism by Alex Paterson
		Philosophical Materialism is based on the concept that the Universe is solely a material dimension and that all phenomena (i.e.
		Philosophical materialism postulates that all consciousness (including human consciousness) is a direct result of the workings of a physical 'brain' and as such physical 'death' results in the destruction of the consciousness associated with that physical body.
		Philosophical Materialism maintains that the 'mind' is entirely the result of the workings of the physical brain whereas Esoteric Theory asserts that the entire universe is made up of a holographic 'energy' field which IS the "Mind" of an infinite Singularity which I (Alex Paterson) choose to call Source, and most other humans call God.
	www.vision.net.au /~apaterson/science/philosophical_materialism.htm (1021 words)

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		Materialism has been the foundational philosophy of many scientific geniuses throughout history and is the one common thread that unites many of the world’s most significant scientific documents.
		According to Materialism, all valid scientific theories, all physical forces, and all assumed properties of material are logically reducible to these two postulates.
		It is the ultimate mechanical "billiard ball" theory, comprising the belief that all phenomena are the result of contact with objects that exist in three dimensions, and that the motion of matter results exclusively from collisions.
	hometown.aol.com /Dennis2020/Index.html (733 words)

	The relationship between science and materialism - JREF Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Once the distinctions among these four elements of the scientific tradition have been clearly made, it becomes evident that scientific materialism, and not science as such, has taken on the role of a nature religion in the modern world.
		He is accusing scientific materialism as being equal in status to a religion and scientism to be equal in status to the fundamentalist version of that religion.
		If there is confusion between science and metaphysics which has been generally accepted rather than rejected by the scientific community then it undermines the claim that we can rely on the scientific community to be a genuine arbiter between science and pseudo-science on the basis of freedom from ideological dogma.
	www.randi.org /forumlive/showthread.php?p=1560266 (3376 words)

	Retelling the Story of Science
		Now, while biblical religion has something to say about the existence of a natural order (which is simply a corollary of its teaching on God and creation), it has for the most part not regarded itself as having much to say about the detailed workings of that natural order.
		The materialist’s notion that religion is about providing mythological explanations of nature in the absence of real scientific understanding—the “God of the gaps” idea—is, as applied to biblical religion at any rate, itself a piece of mythology.
		The materialist is thus driven to deny empirical facts—not the facts in front of his eyes, but, as it were, the facts behind his eyes: facts about his own mental life.
	www.leaderu.com /science/storyofscience.html (7503 words)

	Relative Rational Credibility: Scientific Materialism vs. Christianity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Our willingness to accept scientific claims that are against common sense is the key to an understanding of the real struggle between science and the supernatural.
		Moreover, that materialism is absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door.
		Our willingness to accept scientific claims that are against common sense is the key to an understanding of the real struggle between Christianity and atheism.
	ic.net /~erasmus/RAZ294.HTM (135 words)

	Linda Kimball: Darwinism and the Religion of Scientific Materialism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		When speaking of scientific materialism’s creation account, Ferri candidly admitted: “modern positive sciencehas substituted the conception of natural causality for the conception of miracles and divinity.” (ibid) In other words, scientific materialists have reduced the personal Creator of the universe to the level of an impersonal animating force.
		David Horowitz had this to say about scientific materialism’s theology and creation account: “The victorious radicals had proclaimed a theology of Reason in which equality of condition was the natural and true order of creation.
		Frederick Engel’s reveals that dialectical materialism is rooted in Gnosticism when he says: “An exact representation of the universe, of its evolution, of the development of mankind, and of the reflection of this evolution in the minds of men, canonly be obtained by the methods of dialectics.” (The Making of Utopian Socialism,” Frederick Engel’s, www.marxists.org)
	www.sierratimes.com /06/02/11/67_142_130_18_52387.htm (1086 words)

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