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“If modernist naturalism were true, there would be no objective truth outside of science. In that case right and wrong would be a matter of cultural preference, or political power, and the power already available to modernists ideologies would be overwhelming.”

Quote by Phillip E. Johnson

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Phillip E. Johnson

Phillip E. Johnson is a renowned law professor born on June 18, 1940. He is well-known in the American legal community for his support of intelligent design in science education. more

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“Although I insist that God has always had the power to intervene directly in nature to create new forms, I am willing to be per-suaded that He chose not to do so and instead employed secondary natural causes like random mutation and natural selection.”

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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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“As a theist I believe that God exists and that God creates.”

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“Darwinism is not merely a support for naturalistic philosophy: it is a product of naturalistic philosophy.”

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“In short, the proposition that God was in any way involved in our creation is effectively outlawed, and implicitly negated.”

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Source: Objections Sustained: Subversive Essays on Evolution, Law and Culture

“To philosophical materialists God is no more than an idea in the human mind, and not a very important idea.”

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“Truth as such is not a particularly important concept in naturalistic philosophy.”

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Book:Objections Sustained: Subversive Essays on Evolution, Law and Culture

Source: Objections Sustained: Subversive Essays on Evolution, Law and Culture

“According to the scientific naturalist version of cosmic history, nature is a permanently closed system of material effects that can never be influenced by something from outside - like God, for example.”

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“First, Darwinian theory tells us how a certain amount of diversity in life forms can develop once we have various types of complex living organisms already in existence.”

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Book:Objections Sustained: Subversive Essays on Evolution, Law and Culture

Source: Objections Sustained: Subversive Essays on Evolution, Law and Culture