A Challenge for the Discovery Institute: Methodological Naturalism
Channel: C0nc0rdance
Date: 2010-01-22

The Discovery Institute's stated goal is the overthrow of scientific materialism.  What does that mean, and why do they want to overthrow it?  I have a challenge for the Discovery Institute in return.  Can they produce some example of how a supernatural explanation has defeated scientific materialism in the past?

For more information on this topic, I recommend the work of scientists Robert Pennock and Tom Schneider.

How did they know it was the lettuce?, an article by Robert T Pennock
https://www.msu.edu/~pennock5/research/papers/Pennock_SupNatExpl.html

More about Dr. Pennock at his Michigan State faculty page
https://www.msu.edu/~pennock5/

And his battle against IDC
https://www.msu.edu/~pennock5/research/DISE_PennockVsIDC.html

Evolution simulation and information theory by Tom D Schneider, National Cancer Institute
http://www.lecb.ncifcrf.gov/~toms/