“Science is a method for studying the natural world. Naturalism is a worldview claiming that nature is all there is. Those are not the same thing. Science asks how the natural world works. Naturalism insists, before the discussion even begins, that nothing exists beyond nature.” - CPost
“While Plantinga focuses on the unreliability of reasoning if the brain is a product of blind evolution, Lewis examines the validity of logic itself if such reasoning is solely dependent upon non-rational matter.” - CPost
“The materialist would simply dismiss my friend’s story saying such things are impossible. This is David Hume’s not-so-clever argument: ‘Miracles are impossible therefore miracles do not happen.’ … Human experience tells us otherwise. Inexplicable things happen.” - Imaginative Conservative
“What if, instead of a process limited only to biology, Darwinian evolution was promoted to a fundamental law governing all physical reality? That’s exactly what some scientists have tried to do, most recently in a much-heralded paper” - Breakpoint
“This brief presentation of evidence and reasoning contradicts six [naturalist] affirmations while affirming the Christian theist worldview. How many strikes must naturalism be afforded before it is ruled out as a viable worldview?” - Reasons
“The materialist view that is foisted upon us at every turn—in popular culture, in education, and in jurisprudence—is conveniently set aside when a sufficiently concerning social ill needs to be addressed. This is not to criticize those who reject God and fight for justice, but rather to point out that their sensitivities are rather arbitrary.” - Mark Farnham
J. P. Moreland is a seasoned Christian philosopher who has provided the Church with some very good tools in defense of the Faith and the Christian Worldview. He has been Professor of Philosophy at Biola for many years. This timely book is most welcome as it engages one of the most pernicious false ideas that has arisen from man’s innate hatred of God (Rom. 1:18-25).
Lesser mortals like me can’t claim to fully understand everything Alvin Plantinga writes in books like Where the Conflict Really Lies: Science, Religion, and Naturalism. What we can do is pick up some high-protein food for thought, and possibly, along the way, improve our thinking habits in some potent ways. I read the book primarily as an audiobook, but also in the hardcover form.
Pointless’ Bones, ‘Flawed’ Birth Spacing, and ‘Broken’ Genes: Why our flaws alone can’t disprove God’s purpose.
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