"So one reason the science educators panic at the first sign of public rebellion is that they fear exposure of the implicit religious content in what they are teaching."

Courage

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This quotation examines the core nature of Courage as articulated by Phillip E. Johnson. Within historical and literary traditions, reflections on Courage provide actionable mental models, challenging individuals to evaluate personal ethics, self-discipline, and daily actions.

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About Phillip E. Johnson

Phillip E. Johnson was an American legal scholar and authority on criminal law who was the Jefferson E. Peyser Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley. He co-founded the Center for Science and Culture (CSC) at the Discovery Institute and was one of the leaders of the intelligent design movement, along with William Dembski and Michael Behe. Johnson described himself as "in a sense the father of the intelligent design movement".

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"A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue."

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"Evolutionary naturalism takes the inherent limitations of science and turns them into a devastating philosophical weapon: because science is our only real way of knowing anything, what science cannot know cannot be real."

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"The restriction of religion to private life therefore does not necessarily threaten the vital interests of the majority religion, if there is one, and it protects minority religions from tyranny of the majority."

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"The assumption that nature is all there is, and that nature has been governed by the same rules at all times and places, makes it possible for natural science to be confident that it can explain such things as how life began."

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"To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man."

— Euripides
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"We have a powerful potential in out youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends."

— Mary McLeod Bethune
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"The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next."

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"God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless."

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