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I do not find theism any more credible than materialism as a comprehensive world view. My interest i...

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Thomas NagelMind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False

Both theism and evolutionary naturalism are attempts to understand ourselves from the outside

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Thomas NagelMind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False

Naturalism is the view that the physical world is a self-contained system that works by blind, unbro...

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William A. DembskiThe Design Revolution: Answering the Toughest Questions about Intelligent Design

Why, these men would destroy the Bible on evidence that would not convict a habitual criminal of a m...

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Therefore, when a person refuses to come to Christ it is never just because of a lack of evidence or...

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Philosophy, that leaned on Heaven before,Shrinks to her second cause, and is no more.

Prior to Flew, major apologies for atheism were those of Enlightenment thinkers (David Hume, Arthur ...

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Antony FlewThere Is a God: How the World's Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind

the origin of wickedness is the cliff upon which theism, just as much as pantheism, is wrecked; for ...

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Nothing can penetrate the loneliness of the human heart except the highest intensity of the sort of ...

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Bertrand RussellThe Autobiography of Bertrand Russell

Gods are fragile things, they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense. They th...

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I think I have a very good idea why it is that anti-Semitism is so tenacious and so protean and so e...

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I think I have a very good idea why it is that anti-Semitism is so tenacious and so protean and so e...

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I am an atheist and I consider religions to be a form of collective neurosis. I am not an enemy of t...

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This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and d...

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Isaac NewtonThe Principia: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy

Our assholes will be clean but we must never wash our hands. Our immune systems will be strengthened...

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There seem to be only two kinds of people: Those who think that metaphors are facts, and those who k...

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Joseph CampbellThou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor

When even the brightest mind in our world has been trained up from childhood in a superstition of an...

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Mark TwainThe Autobiography of Mark Twain

No man will say, "There is no God" 'till he is so hardened in sin that it hasbecome his interest tha...

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[I do not believe] in a personal God, let alone a Christian God.

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Max PlanckThe Dilemmas of an Upright Man: Max Planck and the Fortunes of German Science

Since science is essentially objective, involving the study of how things actually are, "materialism...

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Melanie PhillipsThe World Turned Upside Down: The Global Battle over God

All that stuff about Father Earth, it's just stories to explain what's wrong with the world. Like th...

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One of the difficulties in raising public concern over the very severe threats of global warming is ...

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God is an hypothesis, and, as such, stands in need of proof: the onus probandi rests on the theist.

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Percy Bysshe ShelleyThe Necessity of Atheism and Other Essays

Materialism sets us free from sin-by proving that there is no such thing as sin. There's just antiso...

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Phillip E. JohnsonDefeating Darwinism by Opening Minds

Pantheism is sexed-up atheism. Deism is watered-down theism.

There is no indisputable proof for the big bang," said Hollus. "And there is none for evolution. And...

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It is either coincidence piled on top of coincidence," said Hollus, "or it is deliberate design.

No one disputes that seeming order can come out of the application of simple rules. But who wrote th...

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