Re: [asa] C.S. Lewis on ID

On 11/25/08, David Clounch <david.clounch@gmail.com> wrote:

"MN is a Christian theological solution to a theological problem and
should not be taught in schools. Unless the school treats it as a
religious theory in a comparative religion class."

I assume you mean MN as meaning "Methodological Naturalism." If so, it
was "taught" as long ago as 1 BC (+ or - some years) by the Greek
Lucretus. Also by Epictitus. And more recently by my physics
professors at Carnegie Tech in the 1950s.

t was sort of a bedrock principle to them. I remember being taught the
"Two basics of science" as:

1. Consider ALL the evidence
2. Ascribe nothing to the gods.

(This last a quotaton from the ancient Greeks, of course.)

I have a faint memory of it also being taught in my high school class,
but I'm not sure of this. But it makes sense to introduce it then
anyway.

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Received on Wed Nov 26 10:57:28 2008