Evolution's materialism or naturalism denies a role for God

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Contents 1 Claim 2 Source 3 Responses 4 Fallacies contained in this claim 5 External Links 6 Related claims 7 See Also 8 Acknowledgments

Claim

Evolution's materialism or methodological naturalism denies a role for God. "Methodological naturalism asks us for the sake of science to pretend that the material world is all there is." [Dembski, 1998]

Source

• Johnson, Phillip E., 1999 (16 Aug.). The church of Darwin. Wall Street Journal, [1].

Responses

1. If God exists and is responsible for the existence of life on this planet, evolution merely tells us the method by which He did it. Evolution, as a scientific theory, has nothing to say about God's existence, non-existence, sovereignty, transcendence, et cetera.
2. Evolution only indicates that life could have formed without help from a superior being. There is plenty of space left for God, or gods.
3. This claim is based on the assumption that there must be a role for God, which is a mighty assumption indeed.
4. Real science is inherently based on methodological naturalism because this is the only material that can be objectively studied. Anything beyond naturalism depends solely on faith and has no objective reality (by definition) that can be studied.
5. Many religions accept evolution.
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Fallacies contained in this claim

• Special Pleading (materialism is allowed except in biology)
• False Dilemma (One cannot belief in both God and evolution)

External Links

• Mark Isaak's page for this claim [2]
• Isaak, Mark, 2002. A Philosophical Premise of 'Naturalism'? [3].

Related claims

• Evolution requires naturalism
• Evolution is atheistic
• Naturalistic evolution rules out all but a Deist god
• Evolution is a religion

See Also

• Why is Creationism not a Scientific Theory?

Acknowledgments

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