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