If pro-abortionists want to commit intellectual suicide and deny scientific facts, that's their problem. But there's no reason a civilized society should fund their anti-scientific outlook - or accept its inhumane consequences. Nancy Pearcey More Quotes by Nancy Pearcey More Quotes From Nancy Pearcey Homeschoolers are the ultimate do-it-yourselfers. They are self-motivated and self-directed, independent-minded and creative. They are not content to turn their education of their children over to the government. Nancy Pearcey independent government children Americans have grown impatient with the relentless politicizing of every area of life. Nancy Pearcey impatient relentless areas America has always welcomed anyone willing to assimilate to its national character. But radical Islam rejects assimilation and is bent on the conquest of our national character. Nancy Pearcey islam character america We do not create marriage from scratch. Instead, in the elegant language of the marriage ceremony, we 'enter into the holy estate of matrimony. Nancy Pearcey scratches holy language To be intellectual does not require one to be alienated and oppositional. Nancy Pearcey intellectual doe The White House should always be a friend to American freedom. Nancy Pearcey should white house The Tea Party has imparted political energy to common-sense American constitutionalism. Nancy Pearcey common-sense political party The more we learn about life, the less plausible is any evolutionary theory that relies on blind, undirected, piece-by-piece change. Nancy Pearcey pieces blind theory The defense of marriage is the defense of freedom. Neither of which is obsolete. Nancy Pearcey obsolete defense No matter how much you like your local school teacher, he or she is a government agent. Nancy Pearcey government teacher school My aim in homeschooling is to give my children the ability to be an adult learner, a skill set that will last the rest of their lives. Nancy Pearcey skills giving children Indigenous people have discovered that Christianity is not inherently Western but universal - 'translatable' into any cultural idiom. Nancy Pearcey idiom christianity people To use biblical language, those who exchange the glory of God for something in creation will also exchange the image of God for something in creation - and because it is something less than God, it always leads to a lower view of humanity. Nancy Pearcey biblical humanity views Because a human is a someone and not a something, the source of human life must also be a Someone - not the blind, automatic forces of nature, as philosophies like naturalism and materialism tell us. Nancy Pearcey materialism blind philosophy Because humans are capable of choosing, the first cause that created them must have a will. Nancy Pearcey causes humans firsts You don't have to be a Christian to recognize that materialism does not match reality. Materialism is not true to universal human experience - what we all know about ourselves. Nancy Pearcey christian doe reality If people deny free will, then when ordering at a restaurant they should say, "Just bring me whatever the laws of nature have determined that I will get." Nancy Pearcey determined law people No one lives like a robot. We all make choices from the moment we wake up in the morning. Nancy Pearcey robots choices morning The most consistent versions of materialism deny the reality of anything beyond matter - no soul, no spirit, no will, no mind. This is called reductionism: Humans are reduced to biochemical machines. Nancy Pearcey soul mind reality A part is always too limited to explain the whole. You might picture a worldview as trying to stuff the entire universe into a box. Invariably, something will stick out of the box. Its categories are too "small" to explain the world. Nancy Pearcey trying might world
