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The Atheist Experience 26.40 10-02-2022 with Matt Dillahunty and Jim Barrows

The Atheist Experience

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What Is a Mind in a Purely Naturalistic Reality?

JD: Methodological naturalism is about how we come up with proposed explanations for phenomena. Philosophical naturalism is the philosophical position that the natural world is all that exists. We don't have reason to believe there's something beyond the natural world yet, he says. And so if we're going to figure out what causes rain and what causes lightning, well, just write it off as a gods or god-forsaken people who are trying to explain things away from their point of view. That's not an attempt to find knowledge based on an epistemology that says we are not likely to get this right. This is why praying for help isn't likely to do it. You

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