Occupation: Philosopher Birth: February 11, 1923 Death: April 8, 2010
The Koran calls for belief and consequent obedience. It is, surely, calculated to inspire fear, indeed abject terror, rather than love..
If it is to be established that there is a God, then we have to have good grounds for believing that this is indeed so. Until and unless some such gr….
You cannot ... transmute some incoherent mixture of words into sense merely by introducing the three-letter word "God" to be its grammatical subject..
I'm thinking of a God very different from the God of the Christian and far and away from the God of Islam, because both are depicted as omnipotent Or….
However far back we may be able to trace the - so to speak - internal history of the Universe, there can be no question of arguing that this or that ….
So multiverse or not, we still have to come to terms with the origin of the laws of nature. And the only viable explanation here is the divine Mind..
I now believe there is a God...I now think it [the evidence] does point to a creative Intelligence almost entirely because of the DNA investigations.….
Pascal makes no attempt in this most famous argument to show that his Roman Catholicism is true or probably true. The reasons which he suggests for m….
I am open to [the notion of theistic revelation], but not enthusiastic about potential revelation from God. On the positive side, for example, I am v….
Flew concluded that research into DNA had 'shown, by the almost unbelievable complexity of the arrangements which are needed to produce life, that in….
The evidence for the resurrection is better than for claimed miracles in any other religion. It's outstandingly different in quality and quantity..
Science spotlights three dimensions of nature that point to God. The first is the fact that nature obeys laws. The second is the dimension of life, o….
It now seems to me that the findings of more than fifty years of DNA research have provided materials for a new and enormously powerful argument to d….
Although I was once sharply critical of the argument to design, I have since come to see that, when correctly formatted, this argument constitutes a ….
I now believe that the universe was brought into existence by an infinite Intelligence. I believe that this universe's intricate laws manifest what s….
It has become inordinately difficult even to begin to think about constructing a naturalistic theory of the evolution of that first reproducing organ….
Someone tells us that God loves us as a father loves his children. We are reassured. But then something awful happens. Some qualification is made....….
Now, if anything at all can be known to be wrong, it seems to me to be unshakably certain that it would be wrong to make any sentient being suffer et….
In the ordinary, everyday understandings of the words involved, to say that someone survived death is to contradict yourself; while to assert that al….
My one and only piece of relevant evidence [for an Aristotelian God] is the apparent impossibility of providing a naturalistic theory of the origin f….
What would have to occur or to have occurred to constitute for you a disproof of the love of, or the existence of, God?.