“We must stand on the side of goodness, compassion and conscience, not to keep the processes in Nature functioning, but because if… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Science...has become identified with a philosophy known as materialism or scientific naturalism. This philosophy insists that nature is all there is, or… — Phillip E. Johnson Copy Share Image
“Don't create unbelief or doubt in people's minds. When you do so you ruin their lives and you have nothing to give… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“The careful observations and the acute reasonings of the Italian geologists of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; the speculations of Leibnitz in… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
“Nevertheless, he had, on a certain star-lit evening, said wonderingly and quite reverently: "Deh moon looks like hell, don't it?” — Stephen Crane Copy Share Image
“First Law In every animal which has not passed the limit of its development, a more frequent and continuous use of any… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Copy Share Image
The second advantage claimed for naturalism is that it is equivalent to rationality, because it assumes a model of reality in which… — Phillip E. Johnson Copy Share Image
'Batman Begins' came out and it was really successful, and it had gritty naturalism. And suddenly... I can't tell you how many… — David S. Goyer Copy Share Image
If we understand our own times, we will know that we should affirm the reality of God by challenging the domination of… — Phillip E. Johnson Copy Share Image
“Each mind conceives god in its own way. There may be as many variation of the god figure as there are people… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What I hate about kitchen-sink dramas is [this idea] that the set is real, therefore you're going to be seeing truth. You… — John Guare Copy Share Image
“I believe the defenders of intelligent design deserve our gratitude for challenging a scientific world view that owes some of the passion… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
“To Nature nothing can be added; from Nature nothing can be taken away; the sum of her energies is constant, and the… — John Tyndall Copy Share Image
There are also two Christianities in the world today. There is (1) the Christianity of the New Testament, and there is (2)… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
A lot of people inspire me. I'm a huge movie buff. From studying and watching movies, over and over again, directly influential… — David Gordon Green Copy Share Image
“Methodological naturalism is a “ground rule” of science today which requires scientists to seek explanations in the world around us based upon… — Robert T. Pennock Copy Share Image
“You may play well or you may play badly; the important thing is that you should play truly.” — Mikhail Shchepkin Copy Share Image
“In thinking about these questions I have been stimulated by criticisms of the prevailing scientific world picture... by the defenders of intelligent… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
I have a horror of tags and labels. I don't understand, for instance, how people can talk about Bergman's "symbolism". Far from… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
“Intelligent design theorists have learned a few lessons from the failures of their predecessors and have devised a more sophisticated strategy to… — Robert T. Pennock Copy Share Image
Another important historical factor is the fact that this already very simple religion was further simplified and purified by the early philosophers… — Hu Shih Copy Share Image
Anyone who has set out to invent a purely imaginary story knows that the whole thing is fantasy, from beginning to end;… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
I don't bill myself as an atheist but as a naturalist. Naturalism is a belief system. A lot of scientists bristle at… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image