Portal:Philosophy
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Philosophy involves the use of reason, logic, and argument in the search for truth and knowledge of reality. It is a systematic inquiry of the fundamental questions concerning the nature of reality (metaphysics), the justification of belief (epistemology), and the conduct of life (ethics), among other things. It principally focuses on causes and nature of things and of the principles governing existence, the material universe, perception of physical phenomena, and human behavior.
Supernaturalism is the belief that there are beings, forces, and phenomena such as God, angels or miracles which interact with the physical universe in remarkable and unique ways. Supernaturalism is a fundamental premise of theism. Theists by definition hold to a supernaturalistic worldview which stands in contrast to the atheistic premise of naturalism, which denies the existence of any supernatural phenomena.
The word supernatural comes from the Latin word super meaning "above" + nature. It should however, be noted that although some supernatural phenomena may not be perceived by natural or empirical senses, a great many supernatural events have been witnessed in biblical and modern times. Numerous events in Earth's history require a supernaturalistic belief before they can be correctly understood or interpreted.
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A Agnosticism, Antirazor, Atheism, C Conflation, Contradiction, D Decline of atheism, Deism, Dualism, E Epistemology, F Faith, Falsifiability, G God of the gaps, L Life, Logic, Logical fallacy, M Manufacturing facts from a theory, Materialism, Metaphysics, Music, N Naturalism, O Occam's razor, Ontology, P Paradigmatic Schematic, Philosophy, Philosophy of science, R Religious empiricism, S Scientific method, Spirit, Supernaturalism, T Tautology, Teleology, Theism, Theistic realism, Theology, W Worldview, Y Your theory does not work under my theory, so your theory must be wrong
M Music is not neutral S Same evidence with different worldviews
- Respond to anticreationist articles regarding philosophy and theology (Talk.Origins Index of Creationist Claims).
- Write biographies for Philosophers.
Plato wrote the following question and answer sometime around 350 BC: "Is the world created or uncreated? -- that is the first question. Created, I reply, being visible and tangible and having a body, and therefore sensible; and if sensible, then created; and if created, made by a cause, and the cause is the ineffable father of all things, who had before him an eternal archetype."Plato, Timaeus.[1]
- Why doesn't America believe in evolution? Human evolution is splitting America apart, with a growing proportion thinking that we did not descend from an ancestral ape. A survey of 32 European countries, the US and Japan has revealed that only Turkey is less willing than the US to accept evolution as fact. New Scientist. August 19, 2006.
- Creationism dismissed as 'a kind of paganism' by Vatican's astronomer Vatican astronomer says that believing that God created the universe in six days is a form of superstitious paganism. The Scotsman. 5 May 2006
- Court Says Atheism is a Religion The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that atheism should be treated as a ‘religion. August 19, 2005
