48 Quotes by Phillip E. Johnson

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.

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.

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

As a theist I believe that God exists and that God creates.

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.

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.

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.

In short, the proposition that God was in any way involved in our creation is effectively outlawed, and implicitly negated.

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