Neil Ormerod > Quotes

“Theorists may, some day, be able to write down fundamental equations governing physical reality. But physics can never explain what ‘breathes fire’ into the equations, and actualizes them in a real cosmos.”[19]”
― Neil Ormerod, A Public God: Natural Theology Reconsidered

“Theories propose, empirical data dispose (or confirm). Theories”
― Neil Ormerod, A Public God: Natural Theology Reconsidered

“The scientific drive to understand presumes rather than proves that the material world is intelligible.”
― Neil Ormerod, A Public God: Natural Theology Reconsidered

“At times of social unrest when people begin to look for alternatives it is easy for that vacuum to be filled by those who mouth the platitudes of moral virtue and the slogans of truth and freedom but in fact are ideologues interested only in the brute exercise of power.”
― Neil Ormerod, Creation, Grace, And Redemption

“There is no automatic leap from hypothesis to reality that can bypass a “reality check.”
― Neil Ormerod, A Public God: Natural Theology Reconsidered