The Castle Church Door

Over at Alan’s fine blog, I’ve been debating on and off with a Darwinian. Here, for what it’s worth, is my side of the exchange:steve said...rintintin said...“Maybe the supernatural effector wouldn't even need to be a deity, since we don't actually know anything about the possibilities that exist in the supernatural world.”You’ve obviously not done any reading in theistic modal metaphysics.“It's interesting what you are willing to attribute ...

In answer to an email correspondent:1.A materialistic explanation is simpler if everything is material. But that begs the question of whether everything is material.If dualism is true, then a materialistic explanation will be more complicated since a materialist will have to come up with ingenious theories to explain away immaterial objects and substitute material surrogates which have the same explanatory power as the immaterial objects.2.We need to distinguish ...