“Philosophy undergirds science by providing its presuppositions: Science (at least as most scientists and philosophers understand it) assumes that the universe is intelligible and not capricious, that the mind and senses inform us about reality, that mathematics and language can be applied to the world, that knowledge is possible, that there is a uniformity in nature that justifies inductive inferences from the past to the future and form examined cases of, say, electrons, to unexamined cases, and so forth. These and other presuppositions of science . . . are philosophical in nature.”
J. P. Moreland, Christianity and the Nature of Science (Baker, 1989, p. 45)
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Thanks for this.
I put the quote on my blog.
By: J. K. Jones on January 25, 2010
at 7:12 pm