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	The Incompatibility of Naturalism and Scientific Realism
		Representational naturalism is the proposition that human knowledge and intentionality are parts of nature, to be explained entirely in terms of scientifically understandable causal connections between brain states and the world.
		The existence of a supernatural cause of the simplicity of the laws of nature is obviously inconsistent with ontological naturalism.
		Scientific anti-realism, when combined with meta-philosophical naturalism, leads to the conclusion of philosophical anti-realism, since philosophical theories are, according to metaphilosophical naturalism, merely a species of scientific theories.
	www.leaderu.com /offices/koons/docs/natreal.html (5576 words)

	Naturalism (philosophy) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Naturalism does not necessarily claim that phenomena or hypotheses commonly labeled as supernatural do not exist or are wrong, but insists that all phenomena and hypotheses can be studied by the same methods and therefore anything considered supernatural is either nonexistent, unknowable, or not inherently different from natural phenomena or hypotheses.
		Naturalism of this sort says nothing about the existence or nonexistence of the supernatural which by this definition is beyond natural testing.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Naturalism_(philosophy) (2240 words)

	Scientific Naturalism and Intelligent Design
		Intelligent Design denies the naturalism of science by asserting that natural causes are insufficient to explain certain phenomena, such as biological organisms and the diversity of life.
		The denial of "natural" causes can only mean the introduction of "supernatural" causes, teleology, etc. This can only mean (1) that the laws of nature are suspended or (2) that the laws of nature are inadequate to explain the phenomena, and a particular kind of supernatural cause is the only alternative.
		Natural laws are causal laws, with teleological explanations gradually driven from the field.
	www.friesian.com /design.htm (4416 words)

	Is God Unconstitutional, Part 1: Johnson, Phillip
		On the one hand, the scientific authorities want to say that intelligent design is not eligible for consideration because it is religion, not science, and on the other hand they want to say they have thoroughly considered the concept and rejected it as false.
		Scientific naturalism, the philosophy of contemporary natural science, proclaims the latter.
		What has happened is the enterprise of historical science--the scientific picture of the history of the Cosmos from the big bang to the appearance of human consciousness--has been defined by metaphysical naturalists as the application of their philosophy to cosmic history.
	www.arn.org /docs/johnson/unconst1.htm (4780 words)

	Metaphysical naturalism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Thus, metaphysical naturalism entails the belief that nature is in fact all that exists, while methodological naturalism entails the belief that for one reason or another empirical methods will only ascertain natural facts, whether supernatural facts exist or not.
		Evolution by natural selection is a staple of the naturalist worldview, perceived as a well-established scientific explanation for the rise and diversity of life on earth, which developed slowly and imperfectly over an extremely long period of time.
		Consequently, attacking inept constructions of naturalism or caricatures of naturalism is akin to attacking inept theologies or caricatures of theology.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Philosophical_naturalism (5065 words)

	Ebon Musings: Naturalism in Science
		They complain that naturalism is an unjustifiable metaphysical assumption that rules out entire classes of perfectly valid explanations, a ploy by atheist scientists who assume at the outset that God does not exist and tailor their investigations accordingly.
		Naturalism is an absolutely essential part of science for the clear reason that naturalism is the only thing that gives science any explanatory power at all.
		In the end, the motivation of those who attack naturalism's role in science turns out to be the same motivation driving all creationists: unable to bear the thought that science might not support their interpretation of their religion, they set out to force it to be so, regardless of the truth.
	www.ebonmusings.org /evolution/naturalism.html (1739 words)

	Naturalism Is an Essential Part of Science (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Naturalism could be accepted as the most reasonably true philosophy by examining and justifying it's statements as a scientist would examine and justify the statements of a scientific theory.
		In scientific terms, the truth of naturalism could be considered reliable knowledge, since naturalism's statements have a great amount of empirical evidence in support of them, it has a highly-reasoned logical structure, and the statements of this logical structure have been repeatedly and skeptically tested and corroborated.
		Naturalism is not an assumption or presupposition on the part of scientists, a common claim by critics of science; it is, instead, a hypothesis that has been tested and repeatedly corroborated, and so has become reliable knowledge itself.
	www.freeinquiry.com /naturalism.html (14771 words)

	Articles / Impact / Scientific Naturalism as Science - Institute for Creation Research
		Scientific naturalism makes the same point by starting with the assumption that science, which studies only the natural, is our only reliable path to knowledge.
		By their nature, most scientists tend to be withdrawn and prefer to work in a quiet, noncontroversial environment.
		He was active in many scientific organizations and in at least one which was aggressively antagonistic toward the mixing of the Bible and science.
	www.icr.org /article/422 (1971 words)

	The Rise and Fall of Scientific Naturalism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Scientific naturalism is the view that our world is wholly a result of natural processes that can be explained by ordinary science, without the need to postulate intervention by a Creator.
		Scientific naturalism is the view that our world is wholly a result of natural processes that follow the rules of ordinary science.
		But scientific naturalists insist that their view is "scientific" in that the objective facts of science confirm it.
	www.ibri.org /RRs/RR055/SciNat.html (10946 words)

	What is Scientific Naturalism? - TrueU.org : Lecture Hall (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		To accomplish these ends, I will answer the question, "What is scientific naturalism?" Then, in my next article, I will argue that evolution is embraced with a type of certainty that goes well beyond the evidence for it and close with a plea to Christians who advocate theistic evolution.
		According to strong scientism, scientific knowledge exhausts what can be known; if some belief (for instance, a theological belief) is not part of a well established scientific theory, it is not an item of knowledge.
		But scientific knowledge is taken to be so vastly superior that its claims always trump the claims made by other disciplines.
	www.trueu.org /Academics/LectureHall/A000000135.cfm (1596 words)

	Apollos.ws - Against Naturalism
		If naturalism is true, some evolutionary doctrine must also be true and our evolutionary history must be accounted for in terms of only random mutation and natural selection.
		Modern natural science is mathematical through and through: it is impossible to do physics, chemistry, molecular biology and so forth without a very thorough and quite extensive knowledge of modern mathematics (indeed this is true to an increasing extent of social sciences such as psychology and economics).
		“Physicalism, and the naturalism in which it is embedded, both face severe philosophical problems when it comes to accounting for several aspects of the human mind, from the subjective qualia and certainty of first-person experience, through the intentionality and truth or falsity of beliefs, to the reliability of human cognition.”
	www.apollos.ws /against-naturalism (2357 words)

	A Review of RELIGION & SCIENTIFIC NATURALISM by David Griffin
		Arguing that Naturalism(sam) is the dominant scientific worldview, Griffin cites Russell, Monod, Skinner, Uttal, Wilson, Provine, Drees, Asimov, Lewontin, Crick, Searle, Weinberg, Dawkins and others as evidence of this.
		Theistic naturalism retains all nine of these features, he says, by modifying the traditional understanding of #2, from coercive power to persuasive power.
		He identifies himself as a Christian, but points out that one implication of theistic naturalism that some will find problematic is that it provides no basis for arguing that Christianity is “The One True Religion.” Not considering this implication a drawback, Griffin, an advocate of religious pluralism, sees it to be a benefit.
	www.burgy.50megs.com /griffin.htm (1377 words)

	Cheating the Millennium: The Mounting Explanatory Debts of Scientific Naturalism
		It would be hard to imagine philosophical issues bearing more strongly on the human condition than the nature of life and the meaning of human existence, and it would be hard to imagine a scientific issue bearing more strongly on the nature and meaning of life than biological origins.
		Those attempting to justify this view frequently assert that the limitations of the theory are just the general limitations imposed on all scientific theories by standard scientific methodology, and that to exceed the expressive limitations of the theory is thus to transgress the boundaries of science.
		Since then, the decline of teleology has accelerated to a point at which every supposedly universal law of nature is confidently presented as "irrefutable evidence" that natural events unfold independently of intent, and that purpose, divine or otherwise, is irrelevant to natural causation.
	www.megafoundation.org /CTMU/Articles/CTM.htm (1286 words)

	Naturalism_Org
		Naturalism.Org, a production of the Center for Naturalism, is a resource for those interested in scientific naturalism and its personal and social implications.
		Letters to magazines and newspapers are included to illustrate how naturalism applies in the social arena.
		page explores how naturalism can provide a philosophical basis for feelings of connection and meaning within a strictly material universe.
	www.naturalism.org (196 words)

	Intelligent Design - The Cure for Naturalism
		In the context of Naturalism, "Nature" is a concept of reality where all events can be reduced to natural causes.
		Methodological Naturalism is the most popular, because it seems to allow for belief in God as in Deism.
		It does not speculate on the nature of the intelligence when an intelligent cause is not of Human origin.
	gathman.org /class/design/cure.html (1156 words)

	The Incompatibility of Naturalism and Scientific Realism: Koons, Robert.
		The Incompatibility of Naturalism and Scientific Realism: Koons, Robert.
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	www.arn.org /docs/koons/rk_incompatibilitynatreal.htm (5658 words)

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