It appears that we have another person here on the ng trying to connect
dots with a spray gun.
Quoted message said:It appears that all I have to do is tighten up my viewpoints by
explicitly pointing out the strong connection to science with a few
quotations, as follows.---------
Determinism is the philosophical theory that all phenomena are the
result of antecedent conditions and, thus, that there is no free will.
Natural health views determinism and free will as being mutually
exclusive."In the Christian tradition ... the belief hinges on a metaphysical
belief in non-physical reality. The will is seen as a faculty of the
soul or mind, which is understood as standing outside of the physical
world and its governing laws. Hence, for many, a belief in materialism
is taken to imply a denial of free will." (the Skeptic's Dictionary,
http://skepdic.com/freewill.html)While opinions vary, there is a strong connection between the
scientific wordview, determinism, and materialism. "The scientific
doctrine of evolution has gone far towards obliterating the
distinction between external and internal compulsion, e.g. motives,
character and the like[, in support of a hard view of determinism]. In
so far as man can be shown to be the product of, and a link in, a long
chain of causal development, so far does it become impossible to
regard him as self-determined."(1911 edition of the Encyclopedia
Britannica, http://14.1911encyclopedia.org/D/DE/DETERMINISM.htm)For biomedicine, internal determining causes such as a person's
neurochemical state is the key issue. The Natural Health ideology of
free will holds that the scientific wordview always looks for material
causes as the determinants of all human behavior due to its strong
connection to materialism. In medicine, physicians always looks for
material causes as the sole determinants of human illness. Medicine's
biomedical model (The On-line Medical Dictionary,
http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/cgi-bin/omd?biomedical+model) of illness
totally discounts the existence of psychological factors in illness
and in health.
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John Gohde