“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
The argument of theism is to spread the lie, and the argumentation of atheism is to expose the lie. — Steve Fowler Copy Share Image
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
“God is logic's corpse, a wound in reason, grammar's empty skin. (1998) It is as obvious to my left brain that there… — Jamey Hecht Copy Share Image
It seems to me that when confronted with the marvels of life and the universe, one must ask why and not just… — Arthur Leonard Schawlow 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
“But if they are shown to be, and are the works not of men but of God, why are the unbelievers so… — Athanasius of Alexandria Copy Share Image
I don't endorse deism or interventionist theism. My point is just that evolutionary biology is logically compatible with the former and with… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
What terrible questions we are learning to ask! The former men believed in magic, by which temples, cities, and men were swallowed… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Even if matter could do every outward thing that God does, the idea of it would not work as satisfactorily, because the… — William James Copy Share Image
“The existence of a limit to science is, however, made clear by its inability to answer childlike elementary questions having to do… — Anonymous 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
Perhaps the best argument...that the Big Bang supports theism is the obvious unease with which it is greeted by some atheist physicists.… — Anonymous 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
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
“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
“Theism, as religious people typically hold it, does not merely state that some entity created the universe, but that the universe was… — Tim Maudlin Copy Share Image
“The foundation of morality on the human sentiments of what is acceptable behavior versus repulsive behavior has always made morals susceptible to… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
People will then often say, 'But surely it's better to remain an Agnostic just in case?' This, to me, suggests such a… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“In the discoveries of science the harmony of the spheres is also now the harmony of life. And as the eerie illumination… — Michael Denton Copy Share Image
“In the age of the mechanical philosophy, in which all of nature could be viewed as a boundless collection of brute events,… — David Bentley Hart 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
Atheism deprives superstition of its stand ground, and compels Theism to reason for its existence — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Don't set out to teach theism from your natural history... You spoil both. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“High heels are a short (theist) woman's (subconscious) way of telling God to go to hell … in public.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“[T]he present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original[.]” — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
“Theism is a self imposed prison where the jailer and prisoner are one.” — Lance Seivert Copy Share Image
The struggle against atheism is foremost and of necessity a struggle against the inadequacy of our own theism. — Karl Rahner Copy Share Image