Materialism vs anti-materialism deserves serious debate
Paul Austin Murphy writes frequently on science and religion. That’s a good thing. But the subject deserves in-depth analysis rather than merely raising questions about one’s religion or political stance.
It doesn’t take too long reading philosopher Paul Austin Murphy’s posts on Medium or on his philosophy blog that he is very interested in the connection between science and religion. Since that is a primary interest of mine as well, I have read much of what Murphy has written on this. We don’t agree, at least not on much.
I’ve started a few posts in the past intending to point out some areas of disagreement, but when I found myself featured in a recent post on Wolfgang Pauli, I decided it was time to air my thoughts.
Simply put, where I look for the integration of science and faith (religion, spirituality, transcendence, etc.,) his focus is on denigrating any real attempt at integration. He focuses attention on those scientists and philosophers whose views support in some way a scientific basis for belief in any religion or transcendence. Paul Davies draws particular attention, but Philip Goff also is prominently featured. John Eccles is mentioned and what drew me into this is my writing about Wolfgang Pauli and his association with Carl Jung.
