In this timely study, Dawes defends the methodological naturalism
of the sciences. Though religions offer what appear to be
explanations of various facts about the world, the scientist, as
scientist, will not take such proposed explanations seriously. Even
if no natural explanation were available, she will assume that one
exists. Is this merely a sign of atheistic prejudice, as some
critics suggest? Or are there good reasons to exclude from science
explanations that invoke a supernatural agent? On the one hand,
Dawes concedes the bare possibility that talk of divine action
could constitute a potential explanation of some state of affairs,
while noting that the conditions under which this would be true are
unlikely ever to be fulfilled. On the other hand, he argues that a
proposed explanation of this kind would rate poorly, when measured
against our usual standards of explanatory virtue.
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