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## Principles And Strategies of Teaching for Med Tech ### Arguments for Naturalism * **Argument from Precedent:** For over three hundred years, empirical methods have consistently discovered only natural things and causes, even underlying many things once thought to be supernatural. Hence, we shou...

## Principles And Strategies of Teaching for Med Tech ### Arguments for Naturalism * **Argument from Precedent:** For over three hundred years, empirical methods have consistently discovered only natural things and causes, even underlying many things once thought to be supernatural. Hence, we should presume that any unexplained fact has a natural explanation until we have empirically proven otherwise. * **Argument from Best Explanation:** Sound naturalist hypotheses about scientifically unexplained facts still out-perform all other hypotheses in explanatory scope and power, and have to resort to fewer *ad hoc* assumptions than any supernatural alternatives. * **Argument from Absence:** If the supernatural does exist (whether as gods, powers or spirits), it is so silent and inert that its effects are almost never observed, despite extensive searching. * **Argument from Physical Minds:** Scientists have accumulated vast evidence that the human mind is a product of a functioning brain, which is entirely constructed from different interacting physical systems that evolved over time through the animal kingdom. * **Cosmological Argument:** The formation of intelligent life via natural processes is very unlikely unless the universe were immensely old and big, but that is exactly what we have found to be the case, and supernaturalism has not given us any insights into a more likely alternative universe. * **Argument from the Implausibility of Alternatives:** In the absence of any reasonable argument to believe anything supernatural exists (or explains anything), and in the presence of some reasonable arguments to believe the natural world exists (and explains everything), then Naturalism should be accepted until disproved (see Ockham's Razor).