Occupation: Law Professor Birth: June 18, 1940
We're not trying to prove the character of God through science. That's a bad idea. What I'm trying to do is clear away the misunderstandings, the deb….
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 p….
The monopoly of science in the realm of knowledge explains why evolutionary biologists do not find it meaningful to address the question whether the ….
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….
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….
In short, it is not that evolutionary naturalists have been less brazen than the scientific creationists in holding science hostage, but rather that ….
Modernist discourse [...] incorporates semantic devices - such as the labeling of theism as 'religion' and naturalism as 'science' - that work to pre….
This [the intelligent design movement] isn't really, and never has been, a debate about science, it's about religion and philosophy..
A Chinese paleontologist lectures around the world saying that recent fossil finds in his country are inconsistent with the Darwinian theory of evolu….
Science...has become identified with a philosophy known as materialism or scientific naturalism. This philosophy insists that nature is all there is,….
First, Darwinian theory tells us how a certain amount of diversity in life forms can develop once we have various types of complex living organisms a….
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 ….
Evolutionary naturalism takes the inherent limitations of science and turns them into a devastating philosophical weapon: because science is our only….
Materialism sets us free from sin-by proving that there is no such thing as sin. There's just antisocial behavior, which we can control with measures….
As a theist I believe that God exists and that God creates..
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 ….
To philosophical materialists God is no more than an idea in the human mind, and not a very important idea..
Most importantly, I agree that the truth of these matters should be determined by interpretation of scientific evidence - experiments, fossil studies….
If we understand our own times, we will know that we should affirm the reality of God by challenging the domination of materialism and naturalism in ….
According to the scientific naturalist version of cosmic history, nature is a permanently closed system of material effects that can never be influen….
Some theists in evolutionary science acquiesce to these tacit rules and retain a personal faith while accepting a thoroughly naturalistic picture of ….