Phillip E. Johnson Quotes

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• No doubt it is true that science cannot study God, but it hardly follows that God had to keep a safe distance from everything that…
• Science...has become identified with a philosophy known as materialism or scientific naturalism. This philosophy insists that nature is all there is, or at least the…
• Evolutionary biologists have been able to pretend to know how complex biological systems originated only because they treated them as black boxes. Now that biochemists…
• Some theists in evolutionary science acquiesce to these tacit rules and retain a personal faith while accepting a thoroughly naturalistic picture of physical reality.
• The second advantage claimed for naturalism is that it is equivalent to rationality, because it assumes a model of reality in which all events are…
• Materialism sets us free from sin-by proving that there is no such thing as sin. There's just antisocial behavior, which we can control with measures…
• Modernist discourse [...] incorporates semantic devices - such as the labeling of theism as 'religion' and naturalism as 'science' - that work to prevent a…
• In China we can criticize Darwin but not the government. In America you can criticize the government but not Darwin.
• The monopoly of science in the realm of knowledge explains why evolutionary biologists do not find it meaningful to address the question whether the Darwinian…
• Most importantly, I agree that the truth of these matters should be determined by interpretation of scientific evidence - experiments, fossil studies and the like.
• A Chinese paleontologist lectures around the world saying that recent fossil finds in his country are inconsistent with the Darwinian theory of evolution. His reason:…
• So one reason the science educators panic at the first sign of public rebellion is that they fear exposure of the implicit religious content in…
• If modernist naturalism were true, there would be no objective truth outside of science. In that case right and wrong would be a matter of…
• The problem with allowing God a role in the history of life is not that science would cease, but rather that scientists would have to…
• Although I insist that God has always had the power to intervene directly in nature to create new forms, I am willing to be per-suaded…
• Evolutionary naturalism takes the inherent limitations of science and turns them into a devastating philosophical weapon: because science is our only real way of knowing…
• As a theist I believe that God exists and that God creates.
• Darwinism is not merely a support for naturalistic philosophy: it is a product of naturalistic philosophy.
• In short, the proposition that God was in any way involved in our creation is effectively outlawed, and implicitly negated.
• To philosophical materialists God is no more than an idea in the human mind, and not a very important idea.

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