Ronald L. Numbers
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195320374
- eISBN:
- 9780199851379
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195320374.003.0003
- Subject:
- Religion, History of Christianity
This chapter traces the history of what has come to be known as “methodological naturalism”, the bane of intelligent design advocates, who see it as an agent of atheism. Both Christians and skeptics, ...
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This chapter traces the history of what has come to be known as “methodological naturalism”, the bane of intelligent design advocates, who see it as an agent of atheism. Both Christians and skeptics, for different reasons, advocated this approach to studying nature. In fact, it was an evangelical theologian who coined the term and endorsed the methods associated with it. Nothing characterizes modern science better than its rejection of God in explaining the workings of nature. However, it would be wrong to conclude that the naturalization of science has secularized society generally.Less
This chapter traces the history of what has come to be known as “methodological naturalism”, the bane of intelligent design advocates, who see it as an agent of atheism. Both Christians and skeptics, for different reasons, advocated this approach to studying nature. In fact, it was an evangelical theologian who coined the term and endorsed the methods associated with it. Nothing characterizes modern science better than its rejection of God in explaining the workings of nature. However, it would be wrong to conclude that the naturalization of science has secularized society generally.
