"Evolutionary biologist Richard Lewontin said : Â “ we have a prior commitment to materialism . It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us to accept a material explanation of the phenomenal world , but , on the contrary , that we are forced by our priori adherence to material causes to create an apparatus of investigation and a set of concepts that produce material explanations , no matter how counter-intuitiveÂ…Moreover , that materialism is an absolute , for we can not allow a divine foot in the door.Â ”"
"Actually what scientists have is a provisional theory that material causes are sufficient to explain material outcomes . Its provisional and subject to falsification should anyone ever find a valid counter example . So far none such has turned up oddly enough . And yes under that assumption science must be agnostic . Just because GOD can not get a foot in the door does not imply that he can not stand outside the door does it ?"
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"scientists provisional theory material causes subject to falsification valid counter example GOD foot in the door"