Atheism Quote by Antony Flew

“You cannot ... transmute some incoherent mixture of words into sense merely by introducing the three-letter word "God" to be its grammatical subject.”

Antony Flew

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So multiverse or not, we still have to come to terms with the origin of the laws of nature. And the only viable explanation…

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However far back we may be able to trace the - so to speak - internal history of the Universe, there can be no…

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Science spotlights three dimensions of nature that point to God. The first is the fact that nature obeys laws. The second is the dimension…

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I am open to [the notion of theistic revelation], but not enthusiastic about potential revelation from God. On the positive side, for example, I…

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I’m thinking of a God very different from the God of the Christian and far and away from the God of Islam, because both…

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“If you had an equation detailing the probability of something emerging from a vacuum, you would still have to ask why that equation applies.…

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Flew concluded that research into DNA had 'shown, by the almost unbelievable complexity of the arrangements which are needed to produce life, that intelligence…

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Now, if anything at all can be known to be wrong, it seems to me to be unshakably certain that it would be wrong…

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In the ordinary, everyday understandings of the words involved, to say that someone survived death is to contradict yourself; while to assert that all…

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The evidence for the resurrection is better than for claimed miracles in any other religion. It's outstandingly different in quality and quantity.

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If it is to be established that there is a God, then we have to have good grounds for believing that this is indeed…

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What would have to occur or to have occurred to constitute for you a disproof of the love of, or the existence of, God?

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