The Flew-Lamberth the presumptio n of naturalism is that all natural causes themselves are their own boss without any supernatural influence. They are the efficient,primary cause, the necessary being and the sufficient reason. To add God would be to reify a useless , bombastic explanation for what we do know explains with a superstitious pseudo-explanation, thr Supreme Mystery , surrounded by still more mysteries that ostensibly is the Ultimate Explanation but turns out itself as a brute fact that ostensibly explains the Metaverse but in reality but is just God did it, meaningless incoherent obscurantism!
Edward Feser, Thomist, rightly argues that the something is what Leibniz queries, not the nothing , with his query why is there something rather than nothing. That is just the argument from personal incredulity, which science now answers with the eternal quantum fields whence comes one universe after anoter forever, needing no reified,psuedo- explanation.That is the god of the explanatory gap, just as absurd as the one of scientific gaps!That pseudo- answer God is just another argument from ignorance!
Both arguments underscore other theistic arguments!
Naturalism is not self-refuting as Alvin the sophist Plantinga alleges. who with his argument from reason, increduously finds God as the reason for our trusting our faculties when in reality we learn to trust and - mistrust them through trial and error. Would he then allege that perhaps as he wonders that perhaps demons have something to do with natural evils that demons make for our errors? Adaptation means as best as possible in a niche, not the best outcome so evolution after all whilst not guaranteeing the truth, provides for finding it.
Again, theists are ever tring to use that reification of that pareidolia of seeing divine intent and design instead of the reality of mechanism and patterns that Lamberth's argument from pareidolia finds.
So, theism is per Lamberth's reduced animism argument just as superstitious as full animism and polytheism as it too relies on a non-existent intent!
So, naturalism wins by its own power and - by the supernaturalistic default!
Had Europe followed Thales, Strato, Democritus, Leucippus and other atomists and pre-Socratics perhaps we would have had scientific success eons ago!
Viewers, how would you further this about naturalism or have you any dissent?
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