Can’t naturalism and supernaturalism be combined? Maybe if the two views were united, it would be easier to have a publically neutral society.
We always talk about the extremes of naturalism and supernaturalism. It seems as though people think two philosophies can never be combined. But both naturalism and supernaturalism are based on faith. The faith just derives from different sources. Naturalists have to trust in the scientific method and supernaturalists have to trust in God. The question is why can't we trust in both?
At the core of everything, we all have to trust that the universe exists. As Renee Descartes might say, we cannot be sure of anything other than the fact that "I think, therefore I am". Maybe we could find it in ourselves to perhaps agree that God and the scientific method could coexist. If these concepts could coexist, then maybe it would be easier for people to understand views that might differ from their own.
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