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Promoting, advancing and defending Intelligent Design via data, logic and Intelligent Reasoning and exposing the alleged theory of evolution as the nonsense it is. I also educate evotards about ID and the alleged theory of evolution one tard at a time and sometimes in groups

Saturday, January 28, 2017

Joshua Swamidass Conflates Methodological Naturalism with Metaphysical Naturalism

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Biologos' Joshua Swamidass has a blog post titled Why Methodological Naturalism? He says:
Mainstream science seeks “our best explanation of the world, without considering God.” This limiting clause,”without considering God,” is the rule of Methodological Naturalism (MN).
That's metaphysical naturalism that says that, not methodological naturalism. Metaphysical naturalism is dogma and as such cannot govern science. Science must be open and free.

Methodological naturalism just requires your claims to be physically testable. And seeing the design ID is talking about is physical and testable it meets the criteria.

Irreducible complexity can be observed, tested and that test can be repeated ad nauseum and it can be verified. That meets the standards of methodological naturalism.

Joshua Swamidass is just confused

2 Comments:

  • At 2:10 PM, Blogger Jerad said…

    Irreducible complexity can be observed, tested and that test can be repeated ad nauseum and it can be verified.

    Perhaps, but it hasn't been confirmed to exist yet. By anything over a vast minority of biological scientists.

    I agree that if a verified, irreducibly complex biological structure could be found then evolutionary theory would be severely damaged at least. I recommend ID proponents work on finding such a structure. It's a reasonable research pursuit. Sadly, I don't think anyone is actually working on that.

     
  • At 7:04 PM, Blogger Joe G said…

    LoL! Peer-review has uncovered many IC systems, subsystems and structures within life, including life itself.

    So IC has been observed and experiments have confirmed its existence. OTOH Jerad is a scientifically illiterate twerp who doesn't understand anything

     

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