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 organisms like birds, and flowers, and human beings came into existence in the first place.
Phillip E. Johnson
If we understand our own times, we will know that we should affirm the reality of God by challenging the domination of materialism and naturalism in the world of the mind. With the assistance of many friends I have developed a strategy for doing this.. We call our strategy the wedge.
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So one reason the science educators panic at the first sign of public rebellion is that they fear exposure of the implicit religious content in what they are teaching.
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Evolutionary naturalism takes the inherent limitations of science and turns them into a devastating philosophical weapon: because science is our only real way of knowing anything, what science cannot know cannot be real.
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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 been infinitely more effective in getting away with it.
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No doubt it is true that science cannot study God, but it hardly follows that God had to keep a safe distance from everything that scientists want to study.
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Some theists in evolutionary science acquiesce to these tacit rules and retain a personal faith while accepting a thoroughly naturalistic picture of physical reality.
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The monopoly of science in the realm of knowledge explains why evolutionary biologists do not find it meaningful to address the question whether the Darwinian theory is true.
This isn't really, and never has been, a debate about science, it's about religion and philosophy.
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The Intelligent Design movement starts with the recognition that In the beginning was the Word, and In the beginning God created. Establishing that point isn't enough, but it is absolutely essential to the rest of the gospel message.
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A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue.
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To philosophical materialists God is no more than an idea in the human mind, and not a very important idea.
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All the most prominent Darwinists proclaim naturalistic philosophy when they think it safe to do so.
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Darwinism is not merely a support for naturalistic philosophy: it is a product of naturalistic philosophy.
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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 in principle accessible to scientific investigation.
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