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- From: russpj@microsoft.com (Russ Paul-Jones)
- Subject: Supernaturalistic Science (Was Re: Who does Phillip Johnson think the creationists are?)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.001739.2509@microsoft.com>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 00:17:39 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- Summary: Asking some followup questions
- References: <2B53B66F.8366@ics.uci.edu> <1993Jan25.130636.1@woods.ulowell.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan25.130636.1@woods.ulowell.edu> cotera@woods.ulowell.edu writes:
- >Creationism relies on the assumption that God exists and was insrumental in the
- >origin of the universe and everything in it. Evolution, on the other hand,
- >relies on the assumption that He doesn't exist, or if He does, He doesn't
- >interfere with the natural processes of the universe. Neither of these
- >assumptions have been proved to be valid. Yet the assumption made is crucial
- >to the interpretation of the data. No one has disproved God's existence, so I
- >see no reason to prefer one view over the other (from a scientific viewpoint
- >that is).
- > ...
- >Naturalistic explanations are all well and good if there is no God. I have yet
- >to see His existence disproven. Thus naturalistic explanations are, for the
- >time being, inadequate.
-
- You seem to be a proponent of supernaturalistic science. I've put
- together a somewhat detailed description of what I think you mean
- by that, which I posted to the net last week. I am very interested
- in refining this description, as I'm actually confused over some of
- the central questions of the philosophy of supernaturalistic science:
-
- 1. Is it necessary for God to have created the universe? In
- other words, would the assumption of a non-creative God
- be just as suitable for sn science?
-
- 2. When do we accept naturalistic scientific explanations and
- when do we need supernaturalistic scientific explanations?
- For example, most folks nowadays seem to be satisfied with
- naturalistic explanations for the sun's rising each
- morning. Why?
-
- Can you help me out here? In order to save bandwidth, I've merely
- mailed my description to you.
-
- >--Ray Cote
- >
-
- -Russ Paul-Jones
- russpj@microsoft.com
-