"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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"Some theists in evolutionary science acquiesce to these tacit rules and retain a personal faith while accepting a thoroughly naturalistic picture of physical reality.“
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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."
-Phillip E. Johnson
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"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
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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."
-Phillip E. Johnson
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"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
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"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
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"Testimony is an integral part of the Black religious tradition. It is the occasion where the believer stands before the community of faith in order to give account of the hope that is in him or her."
-James Hal Cone
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"I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind."
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"I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs."
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"Faith is a higher faculty than reason."
-H. C. Bailey
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"I've always had great faith in people."
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"I'm an enormous fan of people who have had a lot of faith in themselves, and been on a tremendous journey."
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