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Visit a typical science classroom and you will discover far more than empirical facts being taught. The dominant worldview among scientific intellectuals is evolutionary naturalism, which holds that humans are essentially biochemical machines.

— Nancy Pearcey

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✓Similar Perspectives

Evolutionary naturalism takes the inherent limitations of science and turns them into a devastating philosophical weapon: because science is our only real way of knowing anything, what science cannot know cannot be real.

— Phillip E. Johnson

Science is based on reproducibility and manufactured objectivity. As strong as that makes its ability to generate claims about matter and energy, it also makes scientific knowledge inapplicable to the existential, visceral nature of human life, which is unique and subjective and unpredictable.

— Paul Kalanithi

People, and especially theologians, should try to familiarize themselves with scientific ideas. Of course, science is technical in many respects, but there are some very good books that try to set out some of the conceptual structure of science.

— John Polkinghorne

Science is the best idea humans have ever had. The more people who embrace that idea, the better.

— Bill Nye

Biology is the science. Evolution is the concept that makes biology unique.

— Jared Diamond

Our world is built on biology and once we begin to understand it, it then becomes a technology.

— Ryan Bethencourt

Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature.

— Luther Burbank

The process of science is difficult and challenging. It involves always being aware that your ideas might be right or they might be wrong. I think it's that kind of balance that makes science so interesting.

— Lisa Randall

I saw science as being in harmony with humanity.

— Joseph Rotblat

✗Opposing Perspectives

Traditional academic science describes human beings as highly developed animals and biological thinking machines. We appear to be Newtonian objects made of atoms, molecules, cells, tissues, and organs.

— Stanislav Grof