Naturalism Quotes
42 quotes by 35 authors
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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
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Science preceded the theory of science, and is independent of it. Science preceded naturalism, and will survive it.
— Arthur Balfour
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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
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If you believe in evolution and naturalism then you have a reason not to think your faculties are reliable.
— Alvin Plantinga
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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
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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
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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
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Looking at the doctrine of Darwinism, which undergirded my atheism for so many years, it didn’t take me long to conclude that it was simply…
— Lee Strobel
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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To me documentary photography means making a picture so that the viewer doesn’t think about the man who made the picture. At its esthetic core…
— Aaron Siskind
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There is superficial conflict but deep concord between science and theistic religion, but superficial concord and deep conflict between science and naturalism
— Alvin Plantinga
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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
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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
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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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