I decided to return to what I started in last week’s piece, “Methodological Naturalism,” as something else occurred to me. Using the principle of methodological naturalism as a rule for what science will allow in the explanation of natural phenomenon seems as much a story about human nature as it is science and has been with us for a very long time.
As I mentioned before, some of what is changing my frame of reference is coming from reading the Bible—in this instance, the Book of John, Chapter 9. I could use any of the other three gospels, however, as they refer to many of the same events.
What connects these seemingly disparate parts of science and the Bible is that the Pharisees in John’s biblical account, missed who Jesus was and the answer to what they were waiting for, because they were too busy following the rules. Likewise, science today seems to be missing what we’re all searching for in the truth of our origins and the meaning of life (not necessarily all that different, and maybe not different at all, from John’s story) being too busy following the rules, as in this case of methodological naturalism.
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