Tuesday, May 22, 2012
How YEC and Methodological Naturalism are Similar
I’ve noticed a parallel between YEC (Young Earth Creationism) and Methodological Naturalism. Just
as someone working with the YEC presupposition that their literal
interpretation of Genesis is the correct one and supercedes all apparent
empirical evidence to the contrary, so someone working with the
presupposition of Methodological Naturalism believes that no amount of
empirical evidence should allow for a Supernaturalistic interpretation,
but must await a Naturalistic interpretation, however long it may take
to come up with one. It would seem to me that a more rational position
would be one that allows for empirical evidence to have more input on
our original presuppositions, allowing us to modify them if so needed. (I first made this comment here).
Unique events in the past are excluded from empirism, so the controversy will go on.
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