The last three centuries have witnessed the great rise of the empirical sciences, such as physics and biology. Indeed, who can deny the extraordinary achievements of science? The technology that we rely on everyday and the life-saving medical procedures that were unavailable to previous times are all the fruit of scientific research. It is so…
Human persons undergo many changes throughout their lives. In fact, each phase of life, from birth and adolescence to adulthood and old age, has its own kind of change associated with it. Despite all of these and other changes, it is a commonly held view that a person remains the same individual person throughout his…
REPLACING METHODOLOGICAL NATURALISM Richard Dawkins, during a recent interview about his new book, The God Delusion, proclaimed “[T]he big war is not between evolution and creationism, but between naturalism and supernaturalism.”1 I agree with Dawkins to the extent that naturalism, whether we are talking about metaphysical naturalism or methodological naturalism, is one of the primary…