Talk:Science's method rules out design

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"According to methodological naturalism, in explaining any natural phenomenon the natural sciences are properly permitted to invoke only natural causes to the exclusion of intelligent causes. Methodological naturalism is a regulative principle that purports to keep science on the straight and narrow by limiting science to natural causes. In fact it does nothing of the sort but constitutes a straitjacket that actively impedes the progress of science. If an intelligence actually did play a crucial role in the origin of biological complexity, methodological naturalism would ensure that we could never know it." [1]

"The distinction becomes particularly acute when it is recognized that evolutionary biology and origins science have been driven by Methodological Naturalism - a method which excludes the evidence of design and allows only a natural explanation." [2]

If this counter-claim someday becomes a larger article, or if another larger article exists/appears on the same subject, these two quotes from the sources I just added may be useful. I'll just stick them here for now. ... erm ... carry on ... TheIncredibleEdibleOompaLoompa 03:02, 8 Sep 2005 (BST)

One more:

"Materialist philosophy is one of the oldest beliefs in the world, and assumes the absolute and exclusive existence of matter as its basic principle. According to this view, matter has always existed, and everything that exists consists of matter. This makes belief in a Creator impossible, of course, because if matter has always existed, and if everything consists of matter, then there can be no supramaterial Creator who created it." [3] Zieber 07:10, 5 June 2008 (BST)