During the Victorian period, the practice of science shifted from a religious context to a
naturalistic one. It is generally assumed that this shift occurred because naturalistic science …

In recent controversies about Intelligent Design Creationism (IDC), the principle of
methodological naturalism (MN) has played an important role. In this paper, an often …

Some claim that little has changed since the days of James and Freud and that new
debunking arguments against religious belief merely reiterate older (refuted) arguments. I …

Evolution is often seen as a site of contestation within the school curriculum. The topic of
evolution is therefore often considered to be 'controversial'. I first examine what is meant by …

It has become standard practice for scientists to avoid the possibility of references to God by
adopting methodological naturalism (MN), a method that assumes that the reality of the …

Until recently, little attention has been paid in the school classroom to creationism and
almost none to intelligent design. However, creationism and possibly intelligent design …

The controversy over Intelligent Design (ID) has now continued for over two decades, with
no signs of ending. For its defenders, ID is revolutionary new science, and its opposition is …

Why Methodological Naturalism? Page 1 The Blackwell Companion to Naturalism, First Edition.
Edited by Kelly James Clark. © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Published 2016 by John Wiley & …

Methodological naturalism, the exclusion of the supernatural from the natural sciences, has
drawn critique from both proponents of Intelligent Design and some philosophical naturalists …

Creationists have long argued that evolutionary science is committed to a dogmatic
metaphysics of naturalism and materialism, which is based on faith or ideology rather than …