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“Modernist discourse [...] incorporates semantic devices - such as the labeling of theism as 'religion' and naturalism as 'science' - that work to prevent a dangerous debate over fundamental assumptions from breaking out in the open.”

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Book:Reason in the Balance: The Case Against Naturalism in Science, Law & Education

Source: Reason in the Balance: The Case Against Naturalism in Science, Law & Education

“Classical philosophical theism maintained the ontological distinction between God and creative world that is necessary for any genuine theism by conceiving them to be of different substances, with particular attributes predicated of each.”

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Author:Arthur Peacocke

“We know that nature is described by the best of all possible mathematics because God created it.”

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Author:Alexander Markovich Polyakov

“When I hear that a personal friend has fallen into matrimonial courses, I feel the same sorrow as if I had heard of his lapsing into theism — a holy sorrow, unmixed with anger.”

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Author:Algernon Charles Swinburne

“The opposite of theism is not atheism, it’s idolatry”

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Author:Peter Kreeft

“There is superficial conflict but deep concord between science and theistic religion, but superficial concord and deep conflict between science and naturalism”

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Author:Alvin Plantinga

“If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.”

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“The struggle against atheism is foremost and of necessity a struggle against the inadequacy of our own theism.”

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Author:Karl Rahner

“Question with boldness even the existence of a god.”

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Book:Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts

Source: Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts

“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”

“Open theists affirm the same openness of the future that religious believers assume when they pray and almost all humans assume when they act. The open future is intuitive; but can it be rigorously defended? God in an Open Universe shows that it can. Open theism has always been an attractive view of God; now it becomes a philosophically rigorous one as well.”

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Author:Philip Clayton

“Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.”

“Nothing in our politics is any longer driven or designed by individual humans who have a name and a face; we have sunk from theism into impersonal and depersonalizing deism, a scheme of rule by alien and implacable abstract metaphysical forces.”

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Author:Kenny Smith

“For good people to do evil things, it takes religion.”