Nonsense yet again. Philosophical naturalism is about explaining the observable world using non-supernatural explanations. It has zero problem with anyone believing in ethereal things. Ethereal things are not part of the observable universe. The only conflict that arises is when some people try to claim that science X in the observable world should not be wedded to natural explanations, while science Y in the observable world is fine to be studied that way.
Assuming you are marginally awake, you will notice that those who claim to abhor philosophical naturalism even in biology, accept it for most areas of biology just fine, it is only origins and the history of life that they can't stomach it in. They’d become enthusiastic supporters of philosophical naturalism even in origins if the weight of evidence pointed to non-common descent. They’d yap and yammer with delight all over that, if only it were the case. In fact all the YEC "scientists" are trying to show just that. They muck and muddle about and produce lots of crap (and occasionally something actually useful) trying to use natural explanations to show that the world is only 6000 years old and that all species were created as distinct "kinds". I'm not kidding on this nonsense, go look up the "field" of Baraminology. LOL!
See here for example:
en.wikipedia.org
The intro is:
Baraminology is a creationist system that classifies animals into groups called "created kinds" or "baramin" according to the account of creation in the book of Genesis and other parts of the Bible. It claims that kinds cannot interbreed, and have no evolutionary relationship to one another.[1] Nearly all scientists consider baraminology, like all of creation science, to be a pseudoscience with no relationship to science proper.[2]
The term was devised in 1990 by Kurt P. Wise, based on Frank Lewis Marsh's 1941 coinage of the term "baramin" from the Hebrew words bara (create) and min (kind). The combination is not meaningful in Hebrew. It is intended to represent the different kinds described in the Bible, and especially in the Genesis descriptions of the Creation and Noah's Ark, and the Leviticus and Deuteronomy division between clean and unclean.
Baraminology borrowed its key terminology, and much of its methodology from the field of Discontinuity Systematics founded by Walter ReMine in 1990. |
