Al:
Back home for a few hours. Looked on my hard file for the "Consider all
the evidence" quote. I found only the following:
Methodological Atheism -- rule #1 of science
-- better name is "methodological naturalism."
-- dates back to the Epicureans, about 200 B.C.
-- "Ascribe nothing to the gods"
-- Necessary to avoid the "god-of-the-gaps" trap
-- Rule #2 -- "Consider ALL the evidence." (also Epicureans)
The place I found it suggests to me that the citation is from "Atheism,"
by Otto Strunk, although that part is from memory, not my notes, which
are decades old and made when I obviously did not recognize that
citations were of sufficient importance to document. My excuse is that
the notes were made for myself only at that time and I did not recognize
them as particularly important. Which is not much of an excuse.
Sorry I cannot do better.
John Burgeson (Burgy)
http://www.burgy.50megs.com
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