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The Lost One
Why?Google: methodological naturalism. Or: naturalism as the basis for science. It is not necessary to put such a basis under natural research.
Naturalism and Methodology Naturalism are only philosophies about the approach of natural science, but they in themselves are not science.
Natural science is about investigating a specific phenomena:
- formulate a model (eg hypothesis) of possible explanations and mathematical statements,
- and then testing the model through objective observations that will either refute or verify the model’s likelihood.
These observations are achieved through testable evidence and/or through experiments. The accumulation of evidence or test results from the experiments, will allow scientists to statistically analyze and decide on the model (A) being “probable” & “true”, or (B) being “improbable” & “false”.
A successful model could be further assessed and analyzed by independent scientists through peer review.
Methodology Naturalism is just talk. Science is actually doing the real hard works.
And to date, Natural Science have achieve probable explanations to the natural and physical world, all without delving into implausible explanations of the supernatural world.