Advantage Quote by Phillip E. Johnson

Naturalism is a methodological rather than a metaphysical view. It's because I am a naturalist, actually, that I am sceptical about physicalism.

— Tim Crane

Naturalness is the basis of effectiveness.

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

In our greatest universities, naturalism - the doctrine that nature is all there is - is the virtually unquestioned assumption that underlies not only…

— Philip Johnson

Evolutionary naturalism takes the inherent limitations of science and turns them into a devastating philosophical weapon: because science is our only real way of…

— Phillip E. Johnson

Scientific naturalism is a story that reduces reality to physical particles and impersonal laws, [and] portrays life as a meaningless competition among organisms that…

— Philip Johnson

Naturalism teaches one of the most important things in this world. There is only this life, so live wonderfully and meaningfully.

— Greg Graffin

According to the Dominant Western tradition, the natural world exists for the benefit of human beings.

— Peter Singer

The scientific process has two motives: one is to understand the natural world, the other is to control it.

— C.P. Snow

“Methodological naturalism is a “ground rule” of science today which requires scientists to seek explanations in the world around us based upon what we…

— Robert T. Pennock

To accept Naturalism is to reject such entities as Cartesian minds, private visual and tactual spaces, angelic beings and God.

— David Malet Armstrong

“The general argument from the contingent to the absolute, or from the conditioned to the unconditioned, is a powerful and cogent one. No attempt,…

— David Bentley Hart

If naturalism were true then all thoughts whatever would be wholly the result of irrational causes. It cuts its own throat.

— Anonymous