Ian N. Mills of the New Testament Review Podcast offered a critique of my critique of methodological naturalism. Here’s the video with a few points of critique below: First, a quick observation: if Mills can play clips from my video at 1.5x speed (or whatever it is) then why doesn’t he record himself at 1.5x […]
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Methodological Naturalism as a Wet Firecracker: A Response to Ian N. Mills
Can a Historian Accept that God Raised Jesus from the Dead on Historical Grounds?
Methodological Naturalism is BAD Historical Method
Methodological naturalism — the idea that all causes to which one appeals must be “natural” — is bad historical method. It’s pure dogmatism, that’s all. Here is a simple illustration: in his famous book Chariots of the Gods, Erich Von Daniken visited ancient human civilizations. It’s a bad theory but note that it is, nonetheless, […]
The tortured attempts to avoid intelligent design continue
Back to intelligent design for a bit. In my article “Intelligent Design, Unknown Intelligence, and a Ouija Board” I critiqued several of Joseph H. Axell’s claims culminating in his assertion that you cannot invoke intelligence as an explanation unless you have an account of the intelligence. Axell posted a long response on July 10. Other […]
The spectacular success of methodological naturalism … or scientism run amok?
In “When is a medical anomaly a miracle?” I recounted the case of Victoria, a young girl who suffered from the potentially fatal condition of aplastic anemia. Suddenly on the day before she was scheduled to undergo a bone marrow transplant she went into remission. Without offering a technical definition of miracle, I argued that her parents are […]
“The wings of a butterfly are meant to avoid” … and other design language
My recent flutterby into the symmetical design of a butterfly elicited some fine comments including the following highly informed and articulate comment from Victoria Palmer: Actually the pattern on the wings of a butterfly is more to deter predators then to attract a mate. Mates are found by smell, or pheromones. In fact, some female […]
