Naturalism vs. Supernaturalism: How to Survive the Culture Wars‪.‬

THE CULTURE WARS HAVE, at their root, a conflict between two drastically different ways of understanding reality: one essentially empiricist, the other decidedly not. The liberal-democratic political solution to such conflict is to provide a neutral public space within which differing worldviews make their case. But the very existence of such space and our pluralist society are threatened by totalitarian ambitions for ideological conformity. This threat is best countered by promoting empiricism, not faith, as the basis for knowledge. IRRECONCILABLE DIFFERENCES