The Restriction Of Religion To Private Life

If We Understand Our Own Times, We Will Know That We Should Affirm The Reality Of God By Challenging The Domination Of Materialism And Naturalism In The World Of The Mind. With The Assistance Of Many Friends I Have Developed A Strategy For Doing This. ... We Call Our Strategy The "wedge."

Although I Insist That God Has Always Had The Power To Intervene Directly In Nature To Create New Forms, I Am Willing To Be Per-suaded That He Chose Not To Do So And Instead Employed Secondary Natural Causes Like Random Mutation And Natural Selection.

To Philosophical Materialists God Is No More Than An Idea In The Human Mind, And Not A Very Important Idea.

Science...has Become Identified With A Philosophy Known As Materialism Or Scientific Naturalism. This Philosophy Insists That Nature Is All There Is, Or At Least The Only Thing About Which We Can Have Any Knowledge. It Follows That Nature Had To Do Its Own Creating, And That The Means Of Creation Must Have Included Any Role For God.

Materialism Sets Us Free From Sin-by Proving That There Is No Such Thing As Sin. There's Just Antisocial Behavior, Which We Can Control With Measures Like Laws And Educational Programs.