Best quotes by Phillip E. Johnson on God

Checkout quotes by Phillip E. Johnson on God

• ‟ 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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• ‟ Modernism is typically defined as the condition that begins when people realize God is truly dead, and we are therefore on our own.

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

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• ‟ Although I insist that God has always had the power to intervene directly in nature to create new forms, I am willing to be per-suaded that He chose not to do so and instead employed secondary natural causes like random mutation and natural selection.

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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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• ‟ 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.

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

  - Phillip E. Johnson