Faith and Science- People Quotes

C.S Lewis

Christ wants a child's heart, but a grown ups' head. He wants us to be simple, single-minded, affectionate, and teachable, as good children are; but he also wants every bit of intelligence we have to be alert at it's job, and in first-class fighting trim

G.K Chesterton

the physical sciences, then, depend on the validity of logic just as much as metaphysics[philosophy] or mathematics

G.K Chesterton

we should therefore abandon the distinction between scientific thought and non-scientific thought. The proper distinction is between logical and non-logical thinking

NSTA Definition of Science (methodological naturalism)

because science is limited to explaining the natural world by means of natural processes, it cannot use supernatural causation in it's explanation

Thomas Kuhn

paradigm-the generally accepted models of a scientific community

Stephen Jay Gould

NOMA (non-overlapping magistra)

Daniel Dennet

Darwinism is a universal acid which should even by applied to worldviews students bring from home

Michael Ruse

evolution came into being as a kind of secular ideology, a substitute for Christianity

Venter

I do not think that you can be a true scientist and believe in supernatural explanations

Hitchens

believes that religion is a moral evil

John Keates

unweave a rainbow (poem) - philosophy is todays science and takes the wonder out of nature

George Braque

the only valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain

Meyer

scientific evidence actually supports theistic belief

Meyer

only theism can provide an intellectually satisfying casual explanation for all of this evidence

Galileo

science tells you how the heavens go and religion tells you how to go to heaven

Meyer

it's in these instances where science and metaphysics intersect; where worldview questions are at stake; that it's impossible to impose the NOMA principle

Meyer

its inherent to the Christian faith to make claims about the real world

Meyer and William Dembski

inference to the best explanation

Meyer

the existence of God explains this broad range of evidence more simply, adequately, and comprehensively than any other worldview, including it's main competitors, naturalism and pantheism

Meyer

the materialistic worldview has become the default worldview in science, philosophy, and general academia

Meyer

based on the biblical account we would expect to see both evidence of design in nature as well as evidence of deterioration or decay

Meyer

to attribute creation to a mere natural process is a form of idolatry to which we're all prone

Karl Popper

there is no logical method of having new ideas, every discovery contains an irrational element or creative intuition

Albert Einstein

there is no logical path leading to these laws. They can only be reached by intuition, based on something like an intellectual love of the objects of experience

Bertrand Russell

no method has been found that would make it possible to invent hypothesis by rule