Continuing the Analysis of Methodological Naturalism
We’re evaluating the following statement from an atheist website:
“Methodological naturalism is the label for the required assumption of philosophical naturalism when working with the scientific method. Methodological naturalists limit their scientific research to the study of natural causes because any attempts to define causal relationships with the supernatural are never fruitful and result in the creation of scientific “dead ends” and God of the gaps-type hypotheses.” ~ rationalwiki.org
<quote from Real Faith & Reason, vol 2>
Notice the way the author embedded the lie into the rationalwiki.org statement:
“. . . because any attempts to define causal relationships with the supernatural are never fruitful and result in the creation of scientific dead ends and God of the gaps-type hypotheses.”
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Scientific Dead Ends and Gaps Hypotheses
What about scientific dead ends and gaps hypotheses? Acknowledging God doesn’t cause these. Naturalism creates scientific dead ends. Naturalism leads to naturalism-of-the-gaps hypotheses. The rationalwiki.org statement is projecting the problems of methodological naturalists onto followers of Christ, but followers of Christ don’t share those problems. Although we must concede that some Christians do use ungodly thinking, and they resort to God-of-the-gaps fallacies. However, they wouldn’t have to if they would acknowledge Christ, listen to His voice, and avoid going beyond what Christ reveals. Naturalists, on the other hand, can’t escape naturalism-of-the-gaps hypotheses.
Summing it up, naturalism creates scientific dead ends. Naturalism leads to naturalism-of-the-gaps hypotheses. It always does. Divine revelation never creates God-of-the-gaps fallacies.
A humorous upshot of fallacies like the one committed in the rationalwiki.org quote above is ungodly thinkers learn these ideas and repeat them even though the ideas don’t make sense. So a follower of Christ will tell an ungodly thinker about the opportunity to know Christ in a real sense. Then, the ungodly thinker just mechanically repeats this memorized script from an ungodly website, saying, “You committed a God-of-the-gaps fallacy.” But it’s not a God-of-the-gaps fallacy.
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