The Greek Naturalistic House continues construction

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• Chapter 1.3
• The Greek Naturalistic House continues
  construction

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• With the foundation laid, the first floor
  pillars in place, resulting in a system of
  thought called Greek Natural Philosophy, then
  using the preferred method or methods to arrive
  at Reliable Knowledge, we come to a practice of
  gathering, studying, interpreting, and ordering
  the information gathered from the world around
  us commonly known as practicing Science.
• The Science produced by this structure of
  thought is called

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Evolutionary Science
Rationalism
Skepticism
Empiricism
Greek Natural Philosophy
The Natural World is all that Exists
The Cosmos Consists only of Natural Elements
The Cosmos Functions according to Natural
Processes
The Super-Natural Does Not Exist
THE SUPERNATURAL DOES NOT EXIST
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Evolutionary Science

• As mentioned before, science is the practice of
  gathering, studying, interpreting, and ordering
  the data according to pre-established rules
  formulated by the underlying chosen philosophy
  Evolutionary Science is the product of practicing
  science from a Greek Natural Philosophy base of
  thinking.
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From the Greeks to Darwin By Henry Fairfield
Osborn

• 1. Thales of Miletus (640 B.C.- 546 B.C.) He
  declared water to be the matter from which all
  else arose.
• 2. Anaximander (611 B.C.- 547 B.C.) The earth was
  first covered with water from its gradual drying
  up all creatures were produced. Aquatic men first
  appeared in the form of fish and they emerged
  from this element only after they had progressed
  in development to sustain themselves on land.
  This was like a metamorphasis with the idea of
  survival through trying circumstances.

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From the Greeks to Darwin By Henry Fairfield
Osborn

• 3. Xenophanes (576 B.C.- 480 B.C.)
• The ultimate origin of life he traced back to
  was Spontaneous Generation, believing that the
  sun warming the earth produced plants and animals.

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From the Greeks to Darwin By Henry Fairfield
Osborn

• 4. Empedocles (495 B.C.- 435 B.C.) He believed
  the development of life was a gradual process.
  That plants evolved before animals. That the
  imperfect forms were gradually replaced by
  perfect forms. The natural cause of the
  production of perfect forms was the extinction of
  the imperfect.

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From the Greeks to Darwin By Henry Fairfield
Osborn

• 5. Plato (428 B.C.- 348 B.C.) His Chain of Being,
  was from the perfect to the imperfect. It was a
  degenerative evolution.
• 6. Aristotle (384 B.C. 322 B.C.) He believed in
  a complete ascending gradation in nature, a
  progressive development corresponding with the
  progressive life of the soul. His concept was of
  a single chain of being evolving from polyps to
  man.

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• In the late 1800s the three separate methods
  of Empiricism, Rationalism, and Skepticism joined
  together to form a new three step method of
  attaining Reliable Knowledge
• Step 1 Experiment Empiricism
• Step 2 Hypothesis Rationalism
• Step 3 Repeat Experiment Skepticism
• This three step method is now known as the
  Scientific Method followed for attaining
  Reliable Knowledge.

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But does Modern Science Really Have Such Rules?

• Judge Jones Kitzmiller case 404-cv-2688-JEJ,
  page 65
• December 20, 2005
• While supernatural explanations may be
  important and have merit , they are not a part
  of science. This self-imposed convention of
  science, which limits inquiry to testable,
  natural explanations about the natural world, is
  referred to by philosophers as methodological
  naturalism and is sometimes known as the
  scientific method. Methodological naturalism is a
  ground rule of science today which requires
  scientists to seek explanations in the world
  around us based upon what we can observe, test,
  replicate, and verify.

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Terms

• Methodological Naturalism Means that a person
  in public practice applies methods that assume
  that all can be explained by natural processes.
  This leaves the door open to the supernatural in
  private practice.
• Metaphysical Naturalism Means that a person
• applies Natural Philosophy to both his/her
  public and private practices.

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Magazine National GeographicFebruary of 2007,
Voices page 33

• Francis Collins The Scientist as Believer
• By John Horgan
• Horgan As a scientist who looks for natural
  explanations of things and demands evidence, how
  can you also believe in miracles, like the
  resurrection?

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Magazine National GeographicFebruary of 2007,
Voices page 33

• Francis Collins The Scientist as Believer
• By John Horgan
• Collins I dont have a problem with the concept
  that miracles might occasionally occur at moments
  of great significance, where there is a message
  being transmitted to us by God Almighty. But as a
  scientist I set my standards for miracles very
  high.

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Magazine National GeographicFebruary of 2007,
Voices page 33

• Francis Collins The Scientist as Believer
• By John Horgan
• Horgan The problem I have with miracles is not
  just that they violate what science tells us
  about how the world works. They also make God
  seem too capricious. For example, many people
  believe that if they pray hard enough God will
  intercede to heal them or a loved one. But does
  that mean that all those who dont get better
  arent worthy?

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Book Scientists Confront CreationismIntroduction
by Richard Lewontin, page XIV

• We cannot live simultaneously in a world of
  natural causation and of miracles, if one can
  occur, there is no limit.

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Paper Naturalism Is Today- By History,
Philosophy, And Purpose- An Essential Part of
ScienceBy Dr. Steven d. Schafersman

• Do theistic scientists think they are playing
  a game, in which they do science during the day
  with naturalistic methods, but at night go home
  and leave naturalism behind in the laboratory,
  since they dont really believe it describes a
  true picture of reality?

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Magazine Time November 13, 2006God vs.
Science, By David Van Biema page 51

• Time Professor Dawkins, if one truly understands
  science, is God then a delusion, as your book
  title suggests (The God Delusion)?
• Dawkins The question of whether there exists a
  Super Natural Creator, a God, is one of the most
  important that we have to answer. I think it is a
  scientific question. My answer is no.

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Magazine Time November 13, 2006God vs.
Science, By David Van Biema page 54

• Time Dr. Collins, the Resurrection is an
  essential argument of Christian faith, but
  doesnt it, along with the virgin birth and
  lesser miracles, fatally undermine the scientific
  method, which depends on the constancy of natural
  laws?
• Collins If you are willing to answer yes to a
  God outside of nature, then theres nothing
  inconsistent with God on rare occasions choosing
  to invade the natural world in a way that appears
  miraculous.

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Magazine Time November 13, 2006God vs.
Science, By David Van Biema page 54

• Time Doesnt the very notion of miracles throw
  off science?
• Collins Not at all.
• Dawkins If ever there was a slamming of the door
  in the face of constructive investigation, it is
  the word miracle. Once you buy into the
  position of faith, then suddenly you find
  yourself losing all of your natural skepticism
  and your scientific- really scientific-
  credibility. Im sorry to be so blunt.

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Natural Matter Energy
Evolutionary Science
Rationalism
Skepticism
Empiricism
Greek Natural Philosophy
The Natural World is all that Exists
The Cosmos Consists only of Natural Elements
The Cosmos Functions according to Natural
Processes
The Super-Natural Does Not Exist
THE SUPERNATURAL DOES NOT EXIST
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• In any pattern of thought there must be
  something eternal.
• Since this house is limited to the Natural
  world, Then Matter and Energy must be eternal,
  they cannot be created.

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Natural Matter Energy
Natural Time Chance
Evolutionary Science
Empiricism
Rationalism
Skepticism
Greek Natural Philosophy
The Natural World is all that Exists
The Cosmos Consists only of Natural Elements
The Cosmos Functions according to Natural
Processes
The Super-Natural Does Not Exist
THE SUPERNATURAL DOES NOT EXIST
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• Since Matter and Energy are Eternal, that
  means that Time has always been.
• The Four components that Evolutionary Science
  has to Explain Origins by
• Matter Energy Time Chance

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• Origins According To This Model
• 1. Origin of The Universe.
• Matter Energy Time Chance
• The Big Bang
• 2. Origin of Life.
• Matter (Water) Energy (Sun) Time
• Chance The Spontaneous Origin of Life
• 3. Origin of Man
• Matter (Monkey) Energy (Mutations)
• Time Chance Man

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MAN
Natural Matter Energy
Natural Time Chance
Evolutionary Science
Rationalism
Skepticism
Empiricism
Greek Natural Philosophy
The Natural World is all that Exists
The Cosmos Consists only of Natural Elements
The Cosmos Functions according to Natural
Processes
The Super-Natural Does Not Exist
THE SUPERNATURAL DOES NOT EXIST
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• Man,
• believing that he is a product of
• Matter Energy Time Chance
• arrives at the conclusion that

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• The Super Natural Does Not Exist

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Magazine Time November 13, 2006God vs.
Science, By David Van Biema page 51

• Dawkins The question of whether there exists a
  Super Natural Creator, a God, is one of the most
  important that we have to answer. I think it is a
  scientific question. My answer is no.

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The Super-Natural Does Not Exist
MAN
Natural Matter Energy
Natural Time Chance
Evolutionary Science
Rationalism
Skepticism
Empiricism
Greek Natural Philosophy
The Natural World is all that Exists
The Cosmos Consists only of Natural Elements
The Cosmos Functions according to Natural
Processes
The Super-Natural Does Not Exist
THE SUPERNATURAL DOES NOT EXIST
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• To employ a Science that is based on the belief
  that God does not exist, to then prove by that
  same Science that God does not exist
• That is called Circular Reasoning

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The Super-Natural Does Not Exist
MAN
Natural Matter Energy
Natural Time Chance
Evolutionary Science
Rationalism
Skepticism
Empiricism
Greek Natural Philosophy
The Natural World is all that Exists
The Cosmos Consists only of Natural Elements
The Cosmos Functions according to Natural
Processes
The Super-Natural Does Not Exist
THE SUPERNATURAL DOES NOT EXIST
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