#natura

Naturally, I was a bit of a curiosity, being the first hydrogen peroxide ingestion patient they had ever seen. ↗

— Lara St. John

#bit #curiosity #ever #first #had

You know, differentiating between training and matches. If they are all matches it becomes very natural to shoot them, although Dan thinks I should shoot more of them. I think I shoot plenty of them. ↗

— Nancy Johnson

#becomes #between #dan #i #i think

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

— Phillip E. Johnson

#important #naturalistic #particularly #philosophy #such

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. ↗

— Phillip E. Johnson

#always #am #causes #chose #create

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

#be real #because #cannot #devastating #evolutionary

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. ↗

— Phillip E. Johnson

#closed #closed system #cosmic #effects #example

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

— Phillip E. Johnson

#naturalistic #philosophy #proclaim #prominent #safe

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

— Phillip E. Johnson

#merely #naturalistic #philosophy #product #support

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. ↗

— Phillip E. Johnson

#been #brazen #creationists #effective #evolutionary

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

#acquiesce #evolutionary #faith #naturalistic #personal