#naturalist

My religion is nature. That’s what arouses those feelings of wonder and mysticism and gratitude in me. ↗

— Oliver Sacks

#nature

Keep close to Nature's heart...and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean. ↗

— John Muir

#nature

It's bad writing, however naturalistic it's written, that's where you have to do your best acting. ↗

— Adam Brody

#bad #best #do your best #however #naturalistic

One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#bug #did #grew #grow #grow up

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

— Phillip E. Johnson

#important #naturalistic #particularly #philosophy #such

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