If 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.

The monopoly of science in the realm of knowledge explains why evolutionary biologists do not find it meaningful to address the question whether the Darwinian theory is true.

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

In short, the proposition that God was in any way involved in our creation is effectively outlawed, and implicitly negated.

The second advantage claimed for naturalism is that it is equivalent to rationality, because it assumes a model of reality in which all events are in principle accessible to scientific investigation.

According to the scientific naturalist version of cosmic history, nature is a permanently closed system of material effects that can never be influenced by something from outside - like God, for example.

To philosophical materialists God is no more than an idea in the human mind, and not a very important idea.