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... maintains that no valid proof of the ex- istence of a Divine Being has been produced . Atheism in the form of a denial of the existence of a God has been called dogmatic atheism ; atheism in the form of doubt of man's ability to ...
... maintains that no valid proof of the ex- istence of a Divine Being has been produced . Atheism in the form of a denial of the existence of a God has been called dogmatic atheism ; atheism in the form of doubt of man's ability to ...
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... maintain the oppro- brium cast upon the word atheism is a lie . I believe atheists as a body to be men deserving respect , and I do not care what kind of character religious men may put round the word atheist . I would Existence of ...
... maintain the oppro- brium cast upon the word atheism is a lie . I believe atheists as a body to be men deserving respect , and I do not care what kind of character religious men may put round the word atheist . I would Existence of ...
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... where it is avowed . Atheists have seldom undertaken to do more than to refute the reasons adduced in favour of belief in God . They have rarely pretended to prove that there is no God ; they have maintained 8 Anti - Theistic Theories .
... where it is avowed . Atheists have seldom undertaken to do more than to refute the reasons adduced in favour of belief in God . They have rarely pretended to prove that there is no God ; they have maintained 8 Anti - Theistic Theories .
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... maintained that the existence of God cannot be established , but not that His non - existence can be established ; they have tried to justify their unbelief , but they have not sought to lay a foundation for disbelief . And the reason ...
... maintained that the existence of God cannot be established , but not that His non - existence can be established ; they have tried to justify their unbelief , but they have not sought to lay a foundation for disbelief . And the reason ...
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... maintain that there is no nature , which is the only proposition corresponding to there is no God . But no theist maintains the non - exist- ence of nature . What he maintains is that nature is an effect whose cause is God . If the ...
... maintain that there is no nature , which is the only proposition corresponding to there is no God . But no theist maintains the non - exist- ence of nature . What he maintains is that nature is an effect whose cause is God . If the ...
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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...