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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.”

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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“In the most important sense a creationist is a person who believes in creation, and that includes people who believe that Genesis is a myth and that creation involved a process called evolution and consumed billions of years.”

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