Darwinism is not merely a support for naturalistic philosophy: it is a product of naturalistic philosophy.

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.

All the most prominent Darwinists proclaim naturalistic philosophy when they think it safe to do so.

Science...has become identified with a philosophy known as materialism or scientific naturalism. This philosophy insists that nature is all there is, or at least the only thing about which we can have any knowledge. It follows that nature had to do its own creating, and that the means of creation must have included any role for God.

A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue.

A crush is just as simple as admiration. You get attracted to another person and time can allow feelings to grow more into something more than that.

Most importantly, I agree that the truth of these matters should be determined by interpretation of scientific evidence - experiments, fossil studies and the like.