Anti-theistic Theories: Being the Baird Lecture for 1877W. Blackwood and sons, 1879 - 555 sider |
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... existence and continuance in existence to the wis- dom and will of a supreme , self - existent , omnipo- tent , omniscient , righteous , and benevolent Being , who is distinct from , and independent of , what He has created . In the ...
... existence and continuance in existence to the wis- dom and will of a supreme , self - existent , omnipo- tent , omniscient , righteous , and benevolent Being , who is distinct from , and independent of , what He has created . In the ...
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... existence of a God has been called dogmatic atheism ; atheism in the form of doubt of man's ability to ascertain whether there is a God or not has been called sceptical atheism ; atheism in the form of mere rejection of the evidence ...
... existence of a God has been called dogmatic atheism ; atheism in the form of doubt of man's ability to ascertain whether there is a God or not has been called sceptical atheism ; atheism in the form of mere rejection of the evidence ...
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... existence of atheism has often been doubted . It has been held to be absolutely impossible for a man entirely to throw off belief in God . The thought of a universe without a creator , without a presiding mind and sustaining will ...
... existence of atheism has often been doubted . It has been held to be absolutely impossible for a man entirely to throw off belief in God . The thought of a universe without a creator , without a presiding mind and sustaining will ...
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... 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 Atheism . 7.
... 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 Atheism . 7.
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... 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 attach to any man a name which he dislikes , but a regard to truth forbids ...
... 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 attach to any man a name which he dislikes , but a regard to truth forbids ...
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Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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...
Side 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.
Side 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.