Phillip E. Johnson Quotes

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• Truth as such is not a particularly important concept in naturalistic philosophy.
• According to the scientific naturalist version of cosmic history, nature is a permanently closed system of material effects that can never be influenced by something…
• First, Darwinian theory tells us how a certain amount of diversity in life forms can develop once we have various types of complex living organisms…
• In short, it is not that evolutionary naturalists have been less brazen than the scientific creationists in holding science hostage, but rather that they have…
• In the most important sense a creationist is a person who believes in creation, and that includes people who believe that Genesis is a myth…
• The assumption that nature is all there is, and that nature has been governed by the same rules at all times and places, makes it…
• The restriction of religion to private life therefore does not necessarily threaten the vital interests of the majority religion, if there is one, and it…
• A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue.
• All the most prominent Darwinists proclaim naturalistic philosophy when they think it safe to do so.
• Modernism is typically defined as the condition that begins when people realize God is truly dead, and we are therefore on our own.
• Evolutionary biologists are not content merely to explain how variation occurs within limits, however. They aspire to answer a much broader question-which is how complex…

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