Naturalism

Naturalism is the philosophy that rejects all supernatural phenomena as either false, incoherent, or simply natural phenomena that is not yet understood. A subset of this, Moral naturalism, rejects divine revelation as the source of ethics and holds that morals emerge from a process of Social Darwinism much as instincts emerge among animals in the wild.

Creation Science rejects naturalism because its inherent materialism rejects God's existence and thus any possibility of a relationship with Him.

John Morris, PhD., wrote:

• Naturalism (i.e., naturalistic evolution) is often desirable, for it seemingly frees us from the authority of a Creator God. Without a God to whom we are accountable, we are free to live as we choose. College students, often surrounded by hedonism are particularly ripe for wrong thinking, and many never recover. [1]

Philosophical naturalism is the doctrine that human beings have no soul or spiritual body, that there is no afterlife in heaven or hell, and that all supernatural phenomena, causes or beings are merely figments of human imagination.

Methodological naturalism differs from the above in not positively making any of those philosophical assertions. Yet it takes roughly the same form because it assumes that supernatural phenomena are utterly undetectable.

Philosophers of science argue perpetually over the issues these perspectives entail.