{"id":259,"date":"2012-12-18T20:17:01","date_gmt":"2012-12-19T01:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/atheistintermarried\/?p=259"},"modified":"2012-12-18T20:17:01","modified_gmt":"2012-12-19T01:17:01","slug":"what-does-theism-explain-better-than-naturalism-empiricism-physicalism-materialism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/atheistintermarried\/2012\/12\/18\/what-does-theism-explain-better-than-naturalism-empiricism-physicalism-materialism\/","title":{"rendered":"What does theism explain better than naturalism (= empiricism = physicalism = materialism)?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_260\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-260\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/atheistintermarried\/files\/2012\/12\/im-better-than-you.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-260\" src=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/atheistintermarried\/files\/2012\/12\/im-better-than-you-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/atheistintermarried\/files\/2012\/12\/im-better-than-you-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/skepticink.com\/atheistintermarried\/files\/2012\/12\/im-better-than-you-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/skepticink.com\/atheistintermarried\/files\/2012\/12\/im-better-than-you.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-260\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">You know it&#8217;s true.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/atheistintermarried\/2012\/12\/17\/whats-the-problem-with-naturalism\/\" target=\"_blank\">Following on from the last post<\/a>, in which I asked for summaries of the basic problems of naturalist views (hence the equals signs in the titles; I am aware that the terms cover many different sorts of philosophical views), I want to ask now:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>In what specific ways does theism, broadly conceived, provide a more coherent and reliable philosophical view than naturalism, broadly conceived?<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Really, I expect this question to be a gimme for theists. A slam dunk. I anticipate that the philosophically minded theists will be able to enumerate several critical issues where a theistic view provides a way more cogent and satisfying response than any of its atheist counterparts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">So, have at it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following on from the last post, in which I asked for summaries of the basic problems of naturalist views (hence&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion","tag-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/atheistintermarried\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/atheistintermarried\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/atheistintermarried\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/atheistintermarried\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/atheistintermarried\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/atheistintermarried\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/atheistintermarried\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/atheistintermarried\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/atheistintermarried\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}