A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue.
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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.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.
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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.
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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.
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Darwinism is not merely a support for naturalistic philosophy: it is a product of 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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Everything yields to diligence.
Antiphanes
In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.
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