"To most theistic believers, human life can have……" — Victor J. Stenger
"To most theistic believers, human life can have no meaning in a universe without God. Quite sincerely, and with understandable yearning for a meaning to their existence, they reject the possibility of no God. In their minds, only a purposeful universe based on God is possible and science can do nothing else but support thistruth."
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Victor J. Stenger
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28 Quotes by Victor J. Stenger
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Thought, without the data on which to structure that thought, leads nowhere.
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