Scientific Naturalism Quotes

#1. The question rather is how we should do science and theology in light of the impending collapse of Enlightenment rationalism and scientific naturalism. These ideologies are on the way out. They are on the way out.

William A. Dembski

#2. The witch theory of causality, and how it was debunked through science, encapsulates the larger trend in the improvement of humanity through the centuries by the gradual replacement of religious supernaturalism with scientific naturalism.

Michael Shermer

#3. Scientific naturalism has proven incapable of accounting for a whole range of human experiences, from simple self-awareness to love.

James Carroll

#4. Scientific naturalism is a story that reduces reality to physical particles and impersonal laws, [and] portrays life as a meaningless competition among organisms that exist only to survive and reproduce.

Philip Johnson

#5. The race is now on between the technoscientific and scientific forces that are destroying the living environment and those that can be harnessed to save it ... If the race is won, humanity can emerge in far better condition than when it entered, and with most of the diversity of life still intact.

Edward O. Wilson

#6. I stared up at the ebbing quarter moon and the stars scattered like a handful of salt across the faraway sky ...

Billy Collins

#7. People," she sneered, "were not meant to be as happy as you make them."
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"People were meant to be as happy as you make them.

Jimmy Buffett

#8. C. S. Lewis depicts another source of our misconceptions about Heaven: naturalism, the belief that the world can be understood in scientific terms, without recourse to spiritual or supernatural explanations.

Randy Alcorn

#9. Methodological naturalism is a "ground rule" of science today which requires scientists to seek explanations in the world around us based upon what we can observe, test, replicate, and verify

Robert T. Pennock

#10. Visit a typical science classroom and you will discover far more than empirical facts being taught. The dominant worldview among scientific intellectuals is evolutionary naturalism, which holds that humans are essentially biochemical machines.

Nancy Pearcey

#11. No matter how good you are at something there's always about a million people better than you.

Matt Groening

#12. Somewhere far beyond this world,
I feel nothing anymore

Breaking Benjamin

#13. Today a potato, a tomato, some wheat, lettuce, rice, a banana, and blueberries lost their lives for my sake.

Gregg Krech

#14. Judging foods without regard to price is a rich mans game, and yet poor people can be gourmets able to discern a good potato from a bad one.

Mark Kurlansky

#15. Anyone can have a relationship but if you're dating a woman who's so crazy in bed that if you aren't wearing your Kevlar one night you might never see daylight again ... that's exciting.

Christopher Titus

#16. Never forget to see the beauty, even in ugliness.

Debasish Mridha

#17. 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.

Phillip E. Johnson

#18. More flirtatious than me. I couldn't work it like she did.

Brittany Daniel

#19. We must trust to nothing but facts: These are presented to us by Nature, and cannot deceive. We ought, in every instance, to submit our reasoning to the test of experiment, and never to search for truth but by the natural road of experiment and observation.

Antoine Lavoisier

#20. I believe the defenders of intelligent design deserve our gratitude for challenging a scientific world view that owes some of the passion displayed by its adherents precisely to the fact that it is thought to liberate us from religion. That world view is ripe for displacement ...

Thomas Nagel