Latest Nancy Pearcey Quotes from Interviews

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• There are unprecedented numbers of movements for human rights and freedoms. But the dominant worldviews in academia, like materialism and naturalism, deny the reality of freedom, reducing humans to robots. So where does the concept of human rights come from?

  Nancy Pearcey

  Reality, Rights, Numbers

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• Because humans are capable of choosing, the first cause that created them must have a will.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Firsts, Causes, Humans

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• 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

  Philosophy, Materialism, Blind

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• 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, Reality, Doe

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• No one lives like a robot. We all make choices from the moment we wake up in the morning.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Morning, Choices, Robots

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• 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

  Law, People, Determined

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• 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

  Reality, Soul, Mind

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• 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, World, Might

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• 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, Views, Humanity

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• An idol is anything put in the place of God as the ultimate reality - the eternal, self-existent, uncaused cause of everything else.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Reality, Self, Idols

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• When we encounter the world of ideas for the first time, we easily get overwhelmed. Scripture is telling us, 'Don't be distracted by the details. Cut to the core by asking, What is its idol?' Whatever functions as its God substitute will shape everything else.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Cutting, Idols, Ideas

  "Finding Truth". Interview with Jonathan Petersen, www.biblegateway.com. December 10, 2015.

• Can reason be an idol? Certainly. The philosophy of rationalism puts human reason in the place of God as the source and standard of all truth.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Philosophy, Idols, Reason

  Nancy Pearcey (2015). “Finding Truth: 5 Principles for Unmasking Atheism, Secularism, and Other God Substitutes”, p.43, David C Cook

• An idol is not necessarily something concrete, like a golden calf. It can also be something abstract, like matter. Is matter part of the created order? Sure it is. So the philosophy of materialism qualifies as an idol in the biblical sense.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Philosophy, Biblical, Order

  "Finding Truth". Interview with Jonathan Petersen, www.biblegateway.com. December 10, 2015.

• In studies asking why young people left their family religion, their most frequent response was unanswered doubts and questions. The researchers were surprised: They expected to hear stories of broken relationships and wounded feelings. But the top reason given by young adults was that they did not get answers to their questions.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Asking Why, People, Broken

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• I discovered that Christianity does have the resources to meet the challenges posed by competing worldviews after all.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Challenges, Doe, Christianity

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• Christian adults need to think about talking to our own children as a form of cross-cultural missions. Cultural change happens so quickly that teens are exposed to ideas and worldviews very different from those of previous generations.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Christian, Children, Thinking

  "Finding Truth: An Interview with Nancy Pearcey". Interview with Jonathan Petersen, www.biblegateway.com. December 10, 2015.

• I began asking, 'How can we know Christianity is true?' Sadly, none of the adults in my life offered an answer. Eventually I decided Christianity must not have any answers, and I became an agnostic.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Adults, Asking, Answers

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• In high school, I came to realize I had a second-hand faith, derived from my parents and family background. I had no actual reasons for believing it.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Believe, School, Hands

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