The Case For Miracles

Methodological naturalism is best described by the thesis that only natural features can be factored into any legitimate explanation and that any attempt to explain natural phenomena by appealing to the supernatural is unscientific and illegitimate. This book argues that there is nothing inherently problematic about appealing to supernatural agency in the attempt to explain select phenomena in nature. Reputable philosophers of the ancient and medieval periods, as well as prominent scientists of the early modern era, invoked supernatural agency in their attempts to understand nature. For them, miraculous intervention in nature by a supernatural agent was not unreasonable. However, the supernaturalistic world view has been replaced by methodological naturalism. The assumptions of two pivotal figures—David Hume and Charles Darwin—brought about this change. This book shows that this change was motivated by unscientific means. Hence the change is itself inconsistent with the assumptions of methodological naturalism.Okello, Joseph B. Onyango is the author of 'The Case For Miracles', published 2007 under ISBN 9781424192489 and ISBN 142419248X.