In the book Is Nature Enough John Haught explains the reasons why he finds naturalism, or scientific materialism, inadequate as an explanation for our experience of the world. What reasons does he give for finding naturalism spiritually unsatisfying and how would you evaluate them? What do you think of his account of layered explanations for phenomena? What do you think of his analysis of the emergence of critical intelligence in chapter 8 on the Cosmos or of his argument that evolutionary naturalism is self-contradictory (in chapter 6 on Purpose)?

at the end of his book The First Three Minutes on the beginning of the universe Steven Weinberg comments that “the more the universe seems comprehensible the more it seems pointless.” What do you think of this statement and of Weinberg’s comment quoted on page 11 of Haught’s book?

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