Quotes about Philosophy

The Galileo saga is typically told as a conflict between science and religion. But in reality it was a conflict among Christians over the correct philosophy of nature. Was it Aristotle's quality or Galileo's quantity? Galileo's victory was the triumph of the idea that the nature is constructed on a mathematical blueprint.

In every field, Christians must learn critical thinking skills. Otherwise, we may simply absorb idol-based philosophies from the intellectual atmosphere.

You can be utterly confident that any non-biblical worldview will be too "small" to account for all of reality.

We can call this view liberalism, employing a definition by the self-described liberal philosopher Peter Berkowitz. In his words, "Each generation of liberal thinkers" focuses on "dimensions of life previously regarded as fixed by nature," then seeks to show that in reality they are "subject to human will and remaking.

A worldview can be replaced only by another worldview.

The ordered patterns in nature are not logically necessary. They are contingent on God's will.

We've limited Christianity to salvation and sanctification," he said. But "Christianity is the truth about everything.

Long before pragmatism was developed into a full-blown American philosophy (see chapter 8), it had already been formulated and practiced by evangelical leaders.

The inescapable fact that we are personal beings constitutes evidence that our origin is a personal Being.

We must reject the presumption that holding Christian beliefs disqualifies us as "biased," while the philosophical naturalists get a free pass by presenting their position as "unbiased" and "rational." Most of all, we need to liberate Christianity from the two-story division that has reduced it to an upper-story private experience, and learn how to restore it to the status of objective truth.

The biblical worldview fulfills both the requirements of human reason and the yearnings of the human spirit.

A mind capable of forming an argument against God's existence constitutes evidence for his existence.