Evolutionary naturalism takes the inherent limitations of science and turns them into a devastating philosophical weapon: because science is our only real way of knowing anything, what science cannot know cannot be real.
Interpretation
The quote critiques the limitations of science in understanding reality, suggesting that if science cannot explain something, it is deemed unreal.
Phillip E. Johnson argues that evolutionary naturalism views science as the sole authority on knowledge, asserting that anything beyond the scientific realm is considered non-existent. This perspective raises philosophical concerns about the nature of reality and the scope of human understanding, suggesting that dismissing the unknowns outside of scientific inquiry may be a flawed position.
In practice
In a debate about the role of science in society, one might refer to this quote to emphasize the limitations of scientific inquiry.
At their best, religious and spiritual communities help us discover this pure and naked spiritual encounter. At their worst, they simply make us more ashamed, pressuring us to cover up more, pushing us to further enhance our image with the best designer labels and latest spiritual fads, weighing us down with layer upon layer of heavy, uncomfortable, pretentious, well-starched religiosity.
It has not yet become obvious to me that there's no real problem. I cannot define the real problem; therefore, I suspect there's no real problem, but I'm not sure there's no real problem.
Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.
There are people who are suffering beyond description. They are innocent people, they didn't bring this upon themselves. They are the victims of the sins of other people. And while it's hard to see, it's important to understand that these people exist.
We cannot talk simultaneously about animal rights and the 'humane' slaughter of animals.
True self is non-self, the awareness that the self is made only of non-self elements. There's no separation between self and other, and everything is interconnected. Once you are aware of that you are no longer caught in the idea that you are a separate entity.
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