Naturalism Quotes - Page 4

• Obviously we know Bill Hader is funny and charming, but my question is, can he do raw humanity and naturalism? I think so.

  Mark Duplass

  Thinking, Humanity, Bills

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the structure of the barnacles than Mr. Darwin.

  Richard Owen

  Attention, Structure, Barnacles

  "Darwin on the Origin of Species". "Edinburgh Review", 3, pages 487-532, 1860.

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• There is superficial conflict but deep concord between science and theistic religion, but superficial concord and deep conflict between science and naturalism

  Alvin Plantinga

  Philosophy, Science, Agreement

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• If naturalism were true then all thoughts whatever would be wholly the result of irrational causes. It cuts its own throat.

  C. S. Lewis

  Atheist, Cutting, Atheism

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.39, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In naturalism, man is actually very insignificant, but arrogates to himself stupendous power. In Christianity, man is actually the apex of created significance, but is called to see it in abject humility.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Humility, Men, Christianity

  "Created for Significance". Book by Ravi Zacharias, February 20, 1992.

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• I admire David Hare as much as I admire certainly any writer ever. What I like about his writing is it is very conscientiously, in one way, an attempt to reproduce the way people actually speak, but it's not just an attempt at naturalism. It's stylised and it's heightened, to great effect. It's elegant and it's funny and that's the way to my heart, frankly.

  Bill Nighy

  Writing, Heart, People

  Interview with Sarah Crompton, www.telegraph.co.uk. June 10, 2014.

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• "Methodological naturalism" and "metaphysical naturalism" are terms that often surface in the continuing battle between evolutionary biology and creationism/intelligent design. The methodological thesis says that scientific theories shouldn't postulate supernatural entities; the metaphysical thesis says that no such entities exist. In this debate, God is the supernatural entity at issue; the question isn't whether science gets to talk about mathematical entities if Platonism is correct.

  Elliott Sober

  Intelligent, Issues, Design

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• A real naturalistic approach, I would claim, should take the reality of mental representation as a natural fact. A lot can be said about this fact, but there is no need to say it all in terms of necessary and/or sufficient conditions which are stated in non-intentional terms. The idea that naturalism might require that all the truths should be stated in a particular kind of vocabulary now strikes me as a very peculiar one.

  Tim Crane

  Real, Kind, Natural

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• The challenge and the goal was to get inside Owen's [Suskind] world, because I really wanted to see it through his point of view. To achieve that naturalism, I used a screen in front of a camera as I interviewed him

  Roger Ross Williams

  Views, Goal, Challenges

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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