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 ...
Side 5
... 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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... 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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... 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 is obvious . It is ...
... 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 is obvious . It is ...
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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 454 - Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?