... - the belief that the subject of the non-human and human sciences is all there is, and that there is no need to postulate any explanation that goes beyond or outside the Universe. The first claim privileges the natural world as the limit of knowledge, since the basic truths are the truths of nature. This privilege is an epistemological assumption about the primacy of scientific evidence and the sanctity of the scientific method. The second claim is often called the Stratonician presumption1, that the postulation of a God automatically adopts the burden of proof. Professor Audi attempted to rescue theology from the ruthless badlands of naturalism by appealing to a theory of personal identity. Personhood, according to Audi is the typical identification of a person with his body and his psychological characteristics. So, a person without a body is not exactly a person in the full, ordinary sense. A non-embodied ...

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