tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3227282641625085963.post444507549003468424..comments2023-08-08T04:31:16.509-07:00Comments on Skeptic Griggsy: Ontological NaturalismSkeptic Griggsyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13489791504007818382noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3227282641625085963.post-17248875800939083882010-08-04T18:37:16.625-07:002010-08-04T18:37:16.625-07:00Had Europe followed the atomists and other natural...Had Europe followed the atomists and other naturalists, surely we'd be so further advanced in technology and science. They all recognized that the presumption of naturalism that not only are causes and explanations necessary and efficient, they are also primary and sufficient; Leibniz notwithstanding they are the sufficient reason.This neither begs nor sandbags supernaturalists but is the mere demand for evidence of that supernatural causation as the Necessary and Primary Cause.<br />The atomists anticipated the quantum fields and the Metaverse.<br /> Aristotle with his five failed arguments knew the presumption implicitly, and that it was like the presumptin of innocence in the law.<br /> Before his dementia Antony Flew defended this presumption, but his dementia and his lack of knowledge of developments in biology cause him to become some sort of a deist, like Aristitle.Carneadeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18262312075652707760noreply@blogger.com