"But lack of evidence, if indeed evidence is……" — Alvin Plantinga
"But lack of evidence, if indeed evidence is lacking, is no grounds for atheism. No one thinks there is good evidence for the proposition that there are an even number of stars; but also, no one thinks the right conclusion to draw is that there are an uneven number of stars. The right conclusion would instead be agnosticism."
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Alvin Plantinga
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10 Quotes by Alvin Plantinga
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If you believe in evolution and naturalism then you have a reason not to think your faculties are reliable.
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Hence our verdict on these reformulated versions of St. Anselm's argument must be as follows. They cannot, perhaps, be said…
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Suppose we concede that if I had been born of Muslim parents in Morocco rather than Christian parents in Michigan,…
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Reason is the power or capacity whereby we see or detect logical relationships among propositions.
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The Christian philosopher has a perfect right to the point of view and prephilosophical assumptions he brings to philosophic work;…
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In religious belief as elsewhere, we must take our chances, recognizing that we could be wrong, dreadfully wrong. There are…
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Most of us form estimates of our intelligence, wisdom, and moral fiber that are considerably higher than an objective estimate…
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If we don't know that there is such a person as God, we don't know the first thing (the most…
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There is superficial conflict but deep concord between science and theistic religion, but superficial concord and deep conflict between science…
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More Agnosticism Quotes
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To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
— Thomas Aquinas
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Well, I tell you, if I have been wrong in my agnosticism, when I die I'll walk up to God…
— H. L. Mencken
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I do not have enough faith to believe there is no god.
— David Hume
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Agnosticism is not properly described as a "negative" creed, nor indeed as a creed of any kind, except in so…
— Thomas Huxley
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The most satisfying and ecstatic faith is almost purely agnostic. It trusts absolutely without professing to know at all.
— H. L. Mencken
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Agnosticism has nothing to impart. Its sermons are the exhortations of one who convinces you he stands on nothing and…
— Anna Julia Cooper
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Through fear of resembling one another, through horror of having to submit, through uncertainty as well, through skepticism and complexity,…
— Andre Gide
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Those who talk of the bible as a monument of English prose are merely admiring it as a monument over…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Genuine blasphemy, genuine in spirit and not purely verbal, is the product of partial belief, and is as impossible to…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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From the high spiritual flights of the Vedanta philosophy, of which the latest discoveries of science seem like echoes, to…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its…
— Jonathan Swift
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An atheist has to know more than I know. An atheist is someone who knows there is no God.
— Carl Sagan
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