gnostic
The Lost One
Methodological naturalism is a philosophical view. Naturalism is a philosophical view. The view that everything can be explained with science or evidence alone IS a philosophical view in itself.
I agreed that Naturalism is philosophy as well as Methodological Naturalism and Metaphysical Naturalism are two different approaches to this philosophy.
But the differences is that Methodological Naturalism approach to come close to using scientific method, which is formulate the hypothesis and test the hypothesis using observation via evidences or experiments.
While Metaphysical Naturalism approach Reality the same ways other non-naturalistic Metaphysics making assumption about Reality without understanding how reality works and without evidences, using the silly First Principle rule.
Once the bloody First Principle is made, it cannot be changed. That’s not how science work.
Methodological Naturalism state that no statements are true, unless it has been thoroughly tested; this is more in parallel with science than Metaphysical Naturalism.
Metaphysical Naturalism is a top-down approach, while Metaphysical Naturalism is bottom-up approach, which is far more objective in understanding nature.
Tell me, Darkstorn, how do you provide principles to something without understanding how nature works?
Metaphysical Naturalism, like all other Metaphysics, is backward, outdated, and utterly useless.