It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“God is an hypothesis, and, as such, stands in need of proof: the onus probandi rests on the theist.” — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Christianity is not a mere religion but an experimentally testable science. — Frank J. Tipler Copy Share Image
Intellect, at its best, can make you agnostic. Being theist or atheist is still a matter of choice — Raheel Farooq Copy Share Image
We know that nature is described by the best of all possible mathematics because God created it. — Alexander Markovich Polyakov Copy Share Image
“Not one of you reflects, that you ought know your Gods before you worship them.” — Charles Southwell Copy Share Image
It is my view that these circumstances indicate the universe was created for man to live in. — Robert Jastrow Copy Share Image
Theism is so confused and the sentences in which "God" appears so incoherent and so incapable of verifiability or falsifiability that to… — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
I find it quite improbable that such order came out of chaos. There has to be some organizing principle. God to me… — Allan Sandage Copy Share Image
“Some of the simplest of truths are also some of the most difficult of truths, but such is Christianity: 'If it's not… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Modernist discourse [...] incorporates semantic devices - such as the labeling of theism as 'religion' and naturalism as 'science' - that work… — Phillip E. Johnson Copy Share Image
It was tremendously exciting to discover that science was not destroying religion, as people popularly believe, but that it could cast light… — Susan Howatch Copy Share Image
“Theism, however, teaches that not only is there a moral universe but there is an absolute standard by which all moral judgments… — James W. Sire Copy Share Image
There is for me powerful evidence that there is something going on behind it all. . . It seems as though somebody… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
The only theism worthy of our respect believes in God not because of the way the world is made but in spite… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share Image
In theory I am an agnostic, but pending the appearance of rational evidence I must be classed, practically and provisionally, as an… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
When life is so harsh that a man loses all hope in himself, then he raises his eyes to a shining rock,… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“Mr. Dawkins' assertions are self-refuting- ie. Actual infinity vs. potential infinity easily makes the most reasonable argument for theism and a Deity.… — R. Alan Woods Copy Share Image
“...the naive forms of Christian moral motivation - bare threats of hell and the bribery of heaven - stunt moral growth by… — Richard C. Carrier Copy Share Image
“The problem with ID, of course, is that it leaves open the possibility that the intelligence behind nature may have a moral… — David Klinghoffer Copy Share Image
“The evangelical with his "minority complex" often forgets that he is part of a massive historical movement much larger than his own… — Arthur F. Holmes Copy Share Image
It appears to me (whether rightly or wrongly) that direct arguments against Christianity and theism produce hardly any effect on the public;… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Consciously or unconsciously, most theists see in gods and devils, heaven and hell, reward and punishment, a whip to lash the people… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
When we unravel the theological tomes of the ages, the makeup of God becomes quite clear. God is a human being without… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
A few years ago the Deists denied the inspiration of the Bible on account of its cruelty. At the same time they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“One of the recent arguments from design, that based on the so-called fine-tuning life of some fundamental physical constants, founders on the… — Colin Howson Copy Share Image
“No one commits mass murder in the name of theism or atheism alone. Additional dogmatic principles are needed to justify such grisly… — Armin Navabi Copy Share Image
“Suppose that members of a religious movement, such as Christianity, maintain that the existence of some powerful god and its goals or… — Matt McCormick Copy Share Image
“I think I have a very good idea why it is that anti-Semitism is so tenacious and so protean and so enduring.… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Another source of conviction in the existence of God, connected with the reason and not with the feelings, impresses me as having… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“I do not think there is a demonstrative proof (like Euclid) of Christianity, nor of the existence of matter, nor of the… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The argument of theism is to spread the lie, and the argumentation of atheism is to expose the lie. — Steve Fowler Copy Share Image