To philosophical materialists God is no more than an idea in the human mind, and not a very important idea.
Phillip E. JohnsonMost importantly, I agree that the truth of these matters should be determined by interpretation of scientific evidence - experiments, fossil studies and the like.
Phillip E. JohnsonA 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.
Phillip E. JohnsonIf 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 preference, or political power, and the power already available to modernists ideologies would be overwhelming.
Phillip E. JohnsonScience...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.
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