Saturday, February 25, 2012

Article: Bring Me An Angel Detector! | The Sensuous Curmudgeon


Bring Me An Angel Detector! | The Sensuous Curmudgeon
http://sensuouscurmudgeon.wordpress.com/2010/04/06/bring-me-an-angel-detector/


 A scientist may even believe that a multitude of spirits inhabit this world, but being imperceptible, they are outside the scope of his professional work. For the same reason, no scientist can embark on a scientific exploration of the anatomy of angels' wings, because there are no observable or detectable data to be examined, measured, tested, etc. This is a consequence of methodological materialism — the process of science. It says nothing at all about the existence of spiritual matters, only their inability to be scientifically studied. Methodological materialism is an operational constraint of science, not a philosophical attack on theism

---SPSmith

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