Anti-theistic Theories: Being the Baird Lecture for 1877 |
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... course of lectures which I delivered last year I endeavoured to show that theism was true ; that there was an overwhelming weight of evidence in favour of the belief that the heavens and the earth and all that they contain owe their ...
... course of lectures which I delivered last year I endeavoured to show that theism was true ; that there was an overwhelming weight of evidence in favour of the belief that the heavens and the earth and all that they contain owe their ...
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... course , much more comprehensive in meaning than the term atheism . It applies to all systems which are opposed to theism . It includes , therefore , atheism . No sys- tem is so opposed to theism as atheism ; it is the extreme form of ...
... course , much more comprehensive in meaning than the term atheism . It applies to all systems which are opposed to theism . It includes , therefore , atheism . No sys- tem is so opposed to theism as atheism ; it is the extreme form of ...
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... course , belief in the eternity of matter and motion is not belief in the existence of God , and atheism is not only the belief that God's existence can be disproved , but also the belief that it cannot be proved . We have no desire to ...
... course , belief in the eternity of matter and motion is not belief in the existence of God , and atheism is not only the belief that God's existence can be disproved , but also the belief that it cannot be proved . We have no desire to ...
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... course of lectures . The chief aim of that course was to exhibit the evidence for the existence of God , and the proof of theism is necessarily the refutation of atheism . Further , a secondary aim , kept in view throughout , was ...
... course of lectures . The chief aim of that course was to exhibit the evidence for the existence of God , and the proof of theism is necessarily the refutation of atheism . Further , a secondary aim , kept in view throughout , was ...
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... course , have refuted the atheism which rests on these objections , - the atheism which is purely critical . But whether I succeeded or not , it will be better now to offer some general considerations on atheism in its intellectual ...
... course , have refuted the atheism which rests on these objections , - the atheism which is purely critical . But whether I succeeded or not , it will be better now to offer some general considerations on atheism in its intellectual ...
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Page 160 - That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to. another, is to me so great an absurdity that I believe no man, who has iu philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.
Page 384 - Am I a God at hand, saith the Lord, and not a God afar off? Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him ? saith the Lord. Do not I fill heaven and earth ? saith the Lord.
Page 172 - ... the passage from the current to the needle, if not demonstrable, is thinkable, and that we entertain no doubt as to the final mechanical solution of the problem. But the passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. Granted that a definite thought, and a definite molecular action in the brain occur simultaneously ; we do not possess the intellectual organ, nor apparently any rudiment of the organ, which would enable us to pass, by a process...
Page 172 - ... and illuminated as to enable us to see and feel the very molecules of the brain; were we capable of following all their motions, all their groupings, all their electric discharges, if such there be; and were we intimately acquainted with the corresponding states of thought and feeling, we should be as far as ever from the solution of the problem, " How are these physical processes connected with the facts of consciousness ? " The chasm between the two classes of phenomena would still remain intellectually...