“I do not expect that the mere fact that I was once an evangelical apologist and now see things differently should itself count as evidence that I must be right. That would be the genetic fallacy. It would be just as erroneous to think that John Rankin must be right in having embraced evangelical Christianity since he had once been an agnostic Unitarian and repudiated it for the Christian faith.” ThinkingShouldFactsWould BeChristianChristianityAtheismEvidenceMerePositive AtheismAgnosticChristian FaithEvangelicalFallacyUnitarian Author:Robert M. Price
“In theory I am an agnostic, but pending the appearance of rational evidence I must be classed, practically and provisionally, as an atheist. The chance's of theism's truth being to my mind so microscopically small, I would be a pedant and a hypocrite to call myself anything else.” MindWould BeChanceTheoryTruth IsEvidenceAtheistAppearanceRationalAgnosticHypocriteTheismPedantsPending Book:The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories Source: The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories
“Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.” InspirationalReligionFaithBeliefSpeakFearAtheismEvidenceAtheistAnarchyAgnosticParallelsHeresyBelief Systems Author:Ambrose Bierce
“My view is that if there is no evidence for it, then forget about it. An agnostic is somebody who doesn’t believe in something until there is evidence for it, so I’m agnostic.” IfsBelieveForgetViewsEvidenceAgnostic Author:Carl Sagan
“So it is best to keep an open mind and be agnostic. At first sight that seems an unassailable position, at least in the weak sense of Pascal's wager. But on second thoughts it seems a cop-out, because the same could be said of Father Christmas and tooth fairies. There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?” MindFirstsMaySaidSeemsScienceFatherAtheismPositionProveEvidenceGardenWeakSightBottomAtheistTeethFairyCopAgnosticOpen MindSecond ThoughtsKeep An Open MindPascalGod DelusionTooth FairyWagersFather Christmas Author:Richard Dawkins
“Emotionally I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time.” WantScienceReligionAtheismProveWasteEvidenceAtheistMy TimeSuspectsAgnosticAgnosticismScience ReligionWasting My Time Author:Isaac Asimov
“What I'm asking you to entertain is that there is nothing we need to believe on insufficient evidence in order to have deeply ethical and spiritual lives.” InspirationalNeedsBelieveMotivationalSpiritualOrderAtheismEvidenceAskingAtheistEthicalSpiritual LifeAgnosticInsufficient Author:Sam Harris
“All I say is that I think it is damned unlikely that anything like a central cosmic will, a spirit world, or an eternal survival of personality exist. They are the most preposterous and unjustified of all the guesses which can be made about the universe, and I am not enough of a hair-splitter to pretend that I don't regard them as arrant and negligible moonshine. In theory I am an agnostic, but pending the appearance of radical evidence I must be classed, practically and provisionally, as an atheist.” ThinkingWorldMadeEnoughSpiritUniverseTheoryHairPersonalityEternalSurvivalEvidenceRegardAtheistAppearanceRadicalCosmicAgnosticUnlikelySpirit WorldUnjustifiedMoonshinePending Book:The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories Source: The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories
“I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist for years and years, but somehow I felt it was intellectually unrespectable to say that one is an atheist, because it assumed knowledge that one didn't have. Somehow it was better to say one was a humanist or agnostic. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect that he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time.” WantYearsLongScienceFeltAtheismProveWasteLong TimeEvidenceAtheistMy TimeSuspectsHumanistAgnosticAgnosticismWasting My Time Author:Isaac Asimov
“What's curious about the left's current obsession with Timothy McVeigh is that it proves that - despite a frantic search for 15 years - liberals have come across no better evidence of burgeoning "right-wing extremist" violence than a drug-taking, self-described "agnostic" who was thrown out of the Michigan Militia and who proclaimed, "Science is my religion." That sounds more like Bill Maher than Rush Limbaugh.” YearsSelfPoliticalLeftSoundViolenceDrugProveEvidenceBillsWingsCurrentsObsessionDespiteCuriousThrownAgnosticRight WingExtremistMichiganMilitiaFranticDrug Taking Author:Ann Coulter