Abstract
What is philosophy? What is history? Is much of what we have been taught false concerning these two? Author James Stroud not only breaks down the often neglected field of philosophy of history but shows why much of what we have taken for granted in the subject of "Origins" belongs just as much in the field of history as it does in science. Supporting an open-philosophy of history versus the current closed-philosophy in place, Stroud systematically shows why the paradigm of Naturalism is most likely false and should therefore not influence the way the historian is forced to interpret the data. "Mr. Stroud...has chosen a good topic of discussion in the Philosophy of History because it is not a common one... The masquerading of naturalism as science has driven most of the secular study of historical events and has falsely described religion as quite inferior in value...[and] falsely claim that science is opposed to miracles found in religions... Science cannot oppose what it does not study, and Mr. Stroud has done an excellent job in surveying this very concept in his work surrounding the very philosophy of what we call history today."