"To philosophical materialists God is no more than an idea in the human mind, and not a very important idea."

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"To philosophical materialists God is no more than an idea in the human mind, and not a very important idea."

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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."

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"The second advantage claimed for naturalism is that it is equivalent to rationality, because it assumes a model of reality in which all events are in principle accessible to scientific investigation."

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"To philosophical materialists God is no more than an idea in the human mind, and not a very important idea."

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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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"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."

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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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"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."

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"Evolutionary biologists are not content merely to explain how variation occurs within limits, however. They aspire to answer a much broader question-which is how complex organisms like birds, and flowers, and human beings came into existence in the first place."

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

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"It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God."

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"Conscience is God present in man."

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"God has given you one face, and you make yourself another."

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"I gave in, and admitted that God was God."

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"Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid."

Dean Koontz, American Author

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"God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way free will can ever exist if we as individuals are the result of some external cause."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

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