Like all scientists, rationalists exclude the supernatural from science and stick to the study of natural phenomenon and natural laws (methodological naturalism). But most modern rationalists go one step further. They believe, but can’t prove, that there are no supernatural forces or entities and that there is a purely materialistic explanation for everything (metaphysical naturalism).
Before the discovery of DNA and information science, rationalists hoped that evolution might eventually provide a completely materialistic explanation of origins. They clung tenaciously to the hope that if one day evolution could explain the origin not only of species, but also of life itself, belief in a creator would seem foolish.
Those hopes have now been dashed. As we will see in the Teleology Chapter, leading scientists using methodological naturalism have made a valid scientific inference that life was intelligently designed (click here to review that page). Other leading scientists have shown that too many interdependent parameters of the universe had to be ‘just right’ all at the same time for the universe to exist (click here to review that page). Finally, information science has snuffed out any scientific support for the theory that simple species became increasingly complex by chance evolutionary processes that have only ever been observed to lose information (click here to review that page).
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