Steve Fuller > Quotes

“All that is needed now in the post-truth condition is for a third party – a Lippmann 2.0 – to establish a new baseline of truth-telling against which the New York Times’ own biases come into open view.”
― Steve Fuller, A Player's Guide to the Post-Truth Condition: The Name of the Game

“Unfortunately we live in a time in which only those who have themselves conducted science in some authorized manner are allowed to say anything about what science is and where it should go.”
― Steve Fuller, Theistic Evolution: A Scientific, Philosophical, and Theological Critique

“I have always regarded "atheism" in the true sense (that is, anti-theism, not simply anti-clericalism) as a moral and/or epistemic failure--perhaps a prudishness if not absence of the imagination, which when threatened can morph into bigotry toward that which one simply fails to understand. The neologism "theophobia" would not be out of place.”
― Steve Fuller, Theistic Evolution: A Scientific, Philosophical, and Theological Critique

“The first movement in human history to trust the ordinary person's ability to judge the weight of evidence for themselves was the drive to get people to read the Bible for themselves.”
― Steve Fuller, Theistic Evolution: A Scientific, Philosophical, and Theological Critique

“The first movement in human history to trust the ordinary person's ability to judge the weight of evidence for themselves was the drive to get people to read the Bible for themselves...The Scientific Revolution then extended that 'judge for yourself' attitude to all of physical reality by explicitly treating nature as a second sacred book. Thus it is not surprising that Francis Bacon, with whom the 'scientific method' is normally associated, was also instrumental in the production of the King James version of the Bible.”
― Steve Fuller, Theistic Evolution: A Scientific, Philosophical, and Theological Critique

“...public opinion surveys consistently show that people are pro-science as a mode of inquiry, but anti-science as a mode of authority.”
― Steve Fuller, Theistic Evolution: A Scientific, Philosophical, and Theological Critique

“...from cosmology to biology, it is becoming increasingly clear that science's failure to explain matters at the most fundamental level is at least in part due to an institutional prohibition on intelligent design as one of the explanatory options.”
― Steve Fuller, Theistic Evolution: A Scientific, Philosophical, and Theological Critique