A paradigm is a general theory, like the Darwinian theory of evolution, which has achieved general acceptance in the scientific community. (Phillip E. Johnson)
The assumption that nature is all there is, and that nature has been governed by the same rules at all times and places, makes it possible for natural science to be confident that it can explain such things as how life began. (Phillip E. Johnson)
Modernism is typically defined as the condition that begins when people realize God is truly dead, and we are therefore on our own. (Phillip E. Johnson)
In short, the proposition that God was in any way involved in our creation is effectively outlawed, and implicitly negated. (Phillip E. Johnson)
A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue. (Phillip E. Johnson)
Truth as such is not a particularly important concept in naturalistic philosophy. (Phillip E. Johnson)
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. (Phillip E. Johnson)
The problem with allowing God a role in the history of life is not that science would cease, but rather that scientists would have to acknowledge the existence of something important which is outside the boundaries of natural science. (Phillip E. Johnson)
Some theists in evolutionary science acquiesce to these tacit rules and retain a personal faith while accepting a thoroughly naturalistic picture of physical reality. (Phillip E. Johnson)
The restriction of religion to private life therefore does not necessarily threaten the vital interests of the majority religion, if there is one, and it protects minority religions from tyranny of the majority. (Phillip E. Johnson)
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. (Phillip E. Johnson)
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. (Phillip E. Johnson)
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. (Phillip E. Johnson)
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. (Phillip E. Johnson)
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. (Phillip E. Johnson)
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