Naturalism Quotes

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If naturalism were true then all thoughts whatever would be wholly the result of irrational causes. It cuts its own throat. — C.S. Lewis
Science preceded the theory of science, and is independent of it. Science preceded naturalism, and will survive it. — Arthur Balfour
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… — Phillip E. Johnson
If you believe in evolution and naturalism then you have a reason not to think your faculties are reliable. — Alvin Plantinga
I am really not of the school of naturalism. I like style, and you can use more style in theater than in film roles. I… — Marisa Tomei
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… — Phillip E. Johnson
Naturalism is the view that the physical world is a self-contained system that works by blind, unbroken natural laws. Naturalism doesn't come right out and… — William A. Dembski
Looking at the doctrine of Darwinism, which undergirded my atheism for so many years, it didnâ€™t take me long to conclude that it was simply… — Lee Strobel
Believers can have both religion and science as long as there is no attempt to make A non-A, to make reality unreal, to turn naturalism… — Michael Shermer
In naturalism, man is actually very insignificant, but arrogates to himself stupendous power. In Christianity, man is actually the apex of created significance, but is… — Ravi Zacharias
The world of strict naturalism in which clever mathematical laws all by themselves bring the universe and life into existence, is pure [science] fiction. Theories… — John Lennox
Evolutionists ... have a prior commitment, a commitment to naturalism. It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us to accept… — Richard Lewontin
Empiricism in the sciences is a method; naturalism in philosophy is a metaphysics; and the latter neither follows from nor underlies the former. — David Bentley Hart
Modernist discourse [...] incorporates semantic devices - such as the labeling of theism as 'religion' and naturalism as 'science' - that work to prevent a… — Phillip E. Johnson
Naturalism aimed at giving the primitive wishes full play but failed because these wishes are too primitive, too infantile, too inconsistent with themselves to be… — John Desmond Bernal
To me documentary photography means making a picture so that the viewer doesnâ€™t think about the man who made the picture. At its esthetic core… — Aaron Siskind
There is superficial conflict but deep concord between science and theistic religion, but superficial concord and deep conflict between science and naturalism — Alvin Plantinga
What we take ourselves to be doing when we think about what is the case or how we should act is something that cannot be… — Thomas Nagel
What I hate about kitchen-sink dramas is [this idea] that the set is real, therefore you're going to be seeing truth. You have to earn… — John Guare
Another important historical factor is the fact that this already very simple religion was further simplified and purified by the early philosophers of ancient China.… — Hu Shih

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