Phillip E. Johnson Quotes

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.

A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue.

Scientists have long known that Darwinism is false. They have adhered to the myth out of self-interest and a zealous desire to put down God.

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

In China we can criticize Darwin but not the government. In America you can criticize the government but not Darwin.

Materialism sets us free from sin-by proving that there is no such thing as sin. There's just antisocial behavior, which we can control with measures like laws and educational programs.

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.

Most importantly, I agree that the truth of these matters should be determined by interpretation of scientific evidence - experiments, fossil studies and the like.

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.

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.

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.

Some theists in evolutionary science acquiesce to these tacit rules and retain a personal faith while accepting a thoroughly naturalistic picture of physical reality.

This [the intelligent design movement] isn't really, and never has been, a debate about science, it's about religion and philosophy.

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

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

All the most prominent Darwinists proclaim naturalistic philosophy when they think it safe to do so.

A crush is just as simple as admiration. You get attracted to another person and time can allow feelings to grow more into something more than that.

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

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