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Originally Posted by Bnonn  It seems strange to me that you have not noticed the category error you're committing. You are in effect sayng that, since the assumption of the uniformity of nature is unjustified in a scientific worldview, it must therefore be unjustified in any other worldview. Why? The Christian worldview justifies the principle of nature's uniformity perfectly well by merit of nature being caused and continually upheld by a rational, consistent God. The problem here is that scientists cannot rationally justify their belief in one principle or another. Christians can, so there is no need to suggest that they ought to be skeptics. |
If you believe the principle is in fact reasonable, why on earth are you attacking it? It's a shared assumption then.
A scientist may have any reasons for assuming it (or even rejecting it), on both religious or non-religious grounds.