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In reply to the discussion: What pseudoscience is and is not. [View all]longship
(40,416 posts)Whether he is also a philosophical materialist, I would doubt.
Yes, he sometimes says things without thinking them through, and he's a rather a bit of a rabble rouser when it comes to religion. But when he talks or writes about science, he is firmly in the column of a methodological materialist.
People misjudge Dawkins because they often have never read a word about what he has written about biology. That's how they get away with painting him as some kind of scoundrel, or something.
Well, mainstream science took us to the moon, and cured smallpox (and will soon rid the world of polio), and built the Large Hadron Collider, and built the Internet -- the WWW was invented at CERN, just like the LHC was -- that people use to post here.
I am a firm supporter of mainstream science. It delivers the goods, as Carl Sagan said.
The core of science is methodological naturalism (or materialism, if you wish). I'll stick with that.
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