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<ref>"CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Naturalism". 21 November 2009. Retrieved 6 March 2012. Naturalism is not so much a special system as a point of view or tendency common to a number of philosophical and religious systems; not so much a well-defined set of positive and negative doctrines as an attitude or spirit pervading and influencing many doctrines. As the name implies, this tendency consists essentially in looking upon nature as the one original and fundamental source of all that exists and in attempting to explain everything in terms of nature. Either the limits of nature are also the limits of existing reality, or at least the first cause, if its existence is found necessary, has nothing to do with the working of natural agencies. All events, therefore, find their adequate explanation within nature itself. But, as the terms nature and natural are themselves used in more than one sense, the term naturalism is also far from having one fixed meaning.</ref>

<ref>"CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Naturalism". 21 November 2009. Retrieved 6 March 2012. Naturalism is not so much a special system as a point of view or tendency common to a number of philosophical and religious systems; not so much a well-defined set of positive and negative doctrines as an attitude or spirit pervading and influencing many doctrines. As the name implies, this tendency consists essentially in looking upon nature as the one original and fundamental source of all that exists and in attempting to explain everything in terms of nature. Either the limits of nature are also the limits of existing reality, or at least the first cause, if its existence is found necessary, has nothing to do with the working of natural agencies. All events, therefore, find their adequate explanation within nature itself. But, as the terms nature and natural are themselves used in more than one sense, the term naturalism is also far from having one fixed meaning.</ref>

Naturalism presumes that nature is in principle completely knowable.

Naturalism presumes that nature is in principle completely knowable.

<ref>"completely knowable". For the Christian, nature is completely knowable by God. According to the CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA, the immediate knowledge of God which the angelic spirits and the souls of the just enjoy in Heaven is called the [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02364a.htm beatific vision]. It is called "vision" to distinguish it from the mediate knowledge of God which the human mind may attain in the present life. And since in beholding God face to face the created intelligence finds perfect happiness, the vision is termed "beatific". So in that sense the presumption of naturalism is valid, and true, that nature is in principle completely knowable, placing naturalism on a firm foundation rooted in reality. But any presumption that all of nature is completely knowable by the finite mind of man alone and unaided by God before death is invalid, false, not corresponding to reality. A limited analogy can be expressed as the difference in understanding of life by a four year old child and the understanding of a 65 year old [[Doctor|PhD.]] in [[Liberal arts]]. Naturalists themselves acknowledge that there are limits to human conceptual understanding, which places the claim of naturalism (that nature is in principle completely knowable) on a foundation rooted in untruth and unreality. See [[paradox]] and [[Riemann hypothesis|Riemann Hypothesis RH]].  

<ref>"completely knowable". For the Christian, nature is completely knowable by God. According to the CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA, the immediate knowledge of God which the angelic spirits and the souls of the just enjoy in Heaven is called the [[beatific vision]]. It is called "vision" to distinguish it from the mediate knowledge of God which the human mind may attain in the present life. And since in beholding God face to face the created intelligence finds perfect happiness, the vision is termed "beatific". So in that sense the presumption of naturalism is valid, and true, that nature is in principle completely knowable, placing naturalism on a firm foundation rooted in reality. But any presumption that all of nature is completely knowable by the finite mind of man alone and unaided by God before death is invalid, false, not corresponding to reality. A limited analogy can be expressed as the difference in understanding of life by a four year old child and the understanding of a 65 year old [[Doctor|PhD.]] in [[Liberal arts]]. Naturalists themselves acknowledge that there are limits to human conceptual understanding, which places the claim of naturalism (that nature is in principle completely knowable) on a foundation rooted in untruth and unreality. See [[paradox]] and [[Riemann hypothesis|Riemann Hypothesis RH]].  

<br/>See also:

<br/>See also:

*[http://www.math.com/tables/misc/unproved.htm Unproved theorems]  

*[http://www.math.com/tables/misc/unproved.htm Unproved theorems]