Anti-theistic Theories: Being the Baird Lecture for 1877 |
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... attribute which is essential to a worthy conception of His character is anti - theistic . Only those theories which refuse to acknowledge that there is evidence even for the existence of a God are atheistic.1 An examination of anti ...
... attribute which is essential to a worthy conception of His character is anti - theistic . Only those theories which refuse to acknowledge that there is evidence even for the existence of a God are atheistic.1 An examination of anti ...
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... attributes of Divinity , which must therefore be possessed by the theist while they are pretended to be sought . For unless this man is omnipresent , unless he is at this moment in every place in the universe , he cannot know but there ...
... attributes of Divinity , which must therefore be possessed by the theist while they are pretended to be sought . For unless this man is omnipresent , unless he is at this moment in every place in the universe , he cannot know but there ...
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... attributes of God . A single square foot of earth may contain numerous proofs that there is a God , but only the entire universe can furnish evidence that there is none . He who does not know absolutely every agent in the universe ...
... attributes of God . A single square foot of earth may contain numerous proofs that there is a God , but only the entire universe can furnish evidence that there is none . He who does not know absolutely every agent in the universe ...
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... attribute - the possession of infi- nite knowledge . The atheist , then , who would not virtually de- clare himself to be a god , must not venture to deny either that God is or that God can be known , but must be content merely to deny ...
... attribute - the possession of infi- nite knowledge . The atheist , then , who would not virtually de- clare himself to be a god , must not venture to deny either that God is or that God can be known , but must be content merely to deny ...
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... attributes to matter eternity and self - existence ; sometimes it supposes it to be likewise essentially active ; sometimes it endows it with life , with sen- sation , with volition , with intelligence . Systems which agree in verbally ...
... attributes to matter eternity and self - existence ; sometimes it supposes it to be likewise essentially active ; sometimes it endows it with life , with sen- sation , with volition , with intelligence . Systems which agree in verbally ...
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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 131 - ... the extension of the province of what we call matter and causation, and the concomitant gradual banishment from all regions of human thought of what we call spirit and spontaneity.
Page 76 - It is true that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. For, while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them and go no further, but, when it beholdeth the chain of them confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.