The World Turned Upside Down Quotes

“Since science is essentially objective, involving the study of how things actually are, "materialism" would therefore seem to be its antithesis, since its starting point is the desire to impose upon the natural world a particular and limited way of looking at it.”
― Melanie Phillips, The World Turned Upside Down: The Global Battle over God, Truth, and Power

“Darwinism, meanwhile, is not so much science as materialism applied to biology. The belief that Creation was false did not derive from Darwinism. Darwinism derived from the belief that Creation was false. In trying to fit the natural world to a prior belief, and claiming to be the ultimate explanation of the origin of life, it overreaches and therefore fails to adhere to its own scientific principles.”
― Melanie Phillips, The World Turned Upside Down: The Global Battle over God, Truth, and Power

“Well, the New Religion, as Ms. Phillips teaches, is “Secular Humanism,” which, although it lacks logically consistent precepts, does contain innumerable sanctions and taboos. Of these latter, the most observed is loud and clear: do not tell the truth.”
― Melanie Phillips, The World Turned Upside Down: The Global Battle over God, Truth, and Power

“A dedication to irrationality grows more difficult to renounce with each reiteration of unreason, for the deluded must increasingly face the shame not only of his folly but of the misery it begets. As the tally grows, the likelihood of self-correction diminishes; and the committed one-worlder, now chained to his oars, must insulate himself against both reality and countervailing opinion. He does so handily by demonizing those trying to restore him to sanity.”
― Melanie Phillips, The World Turned Upside Down: The Global Battle over God, Truth, and Power