[spunkets]

"Naturalism, like intelligent design, is not scientific."

Yes it is. Science considers only what can be physically observed and can be demonstrated to exist.

If you can't demonstrate that something exists, so that anyone can examine it, it's not a proper subject of science. It belongs in religion, phil, or psych.

[taxesareforever]

Science considers only what can be physically observed and can be demonstrated to exist.

Of course you must be joking.

[taxesareforever]

Science considers only what can be physically observed and can be demonstrated to exist.

Of course you must be joking.

[Rurudyne]

"Yes it is. Science considers only what can be physically observed and can be demonstrated to exist."

So, are you saying we can observe and demonstrate the origins of life?I'm not talking about a chromosome pair fusing in an ancient pony to give us the domestic horse, I'm talking about organic ooze becoming living organic ooze. Ooze that begins to devour the unsuccessful leftovers in the organic soup as it reproduces itself.

If such an idea (central to naturalism) can only be inferred but not tested then it is a mere belief.

[RobbyS]

Naturalism is the notion that nothing exists which cannot be perceived by these senses. This is different from the view of theologians as different from Thomas Aquinas and John Calvin that we can know only what we perceive through the senses.