--- In [email protected], "compost1uk" <compost...@...> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "yifuxero" <yifuxero@> wrote: > > > > http://www.colorado.edu/philosophy/vstenger/ > > > > from the website: > > In The New Atheism, I review and expand upon the principles of New Atheism > > and answer many of its critics. I show how naturalism, the view that > > everything is matter an nothing more, is sufficient to explain all we > > observe in the universe from the most distant galaxies to the inner > > workings of the brain that result in the phenomenon of mind. > [snip] > > Phew! And all before lunch no doubt. OK, Perhaps he'll need till > tea time for "the inner workings of the brain that result in the > phenomenon of mind". But easy-peasy all the same.
Sounds like someone is holding out for a supernatural solution to the mystery. > Or hubris? Have to wait and see, but the more we know about the workings of the brain the less necessary a mystical explanation becomes. > (And why does naturalism equate to materialism?) Naturalism:- The system of thought holding that all phenomena can be explained in terms of natural causes and laws. Materialism:- The theory that physical matter is the only reality and that everything, including thought, feeling, mind, and will, can be explained in terms of matter and physical phenomena.
