Evidence Quote by Robert T. Pennock

Methodological naturalism gives advice to scientists about what they should include in their theories. There is a second type of methodological naturalism that gives…

— Elliott Sober

“As science advanced in the late nineteenth century, it increasingly excluded appeals to divine action or divine ideas as a way of explaining phenomena…

— Stephen C. Meyer

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

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

— Philip 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

Natural science is founded on minute critical views of the general order of events taking place upon our globe, corrected, enlarged, or exalted by…

— Humphry Davy

“More than ever before, it was assumed that the methods of natural science could be—and should be—used to understand and solve the problems facing…

— Laura J. Snyder

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

Evolutionists ... have a prior commitment, a commitment to naturalism. It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us to…

— Richard Lewontin

“Thus natural science is not a way of knowing the real world; its value lies not in its truth but in its utility; by…

— R.G. Collingwood

Science is not a system of certain, or -established, statements; nor is it a system which steadily advances towards a state of finality... And…

— Karl Popper

“[Scientific humanism is] the only worldview compatible with science's growing knowledge of the real world and the laws of nature.”

— Edward O. Wilson