“Agnosticism is a perfectly respectable and tenable philosophical position; it is not dogmatic and makes no pronouncements about the ultimate truths of the universe. It remains open to evidence and persuasion; lacking faith, it nevertheless does not deride faith. Atheism, on the other hand, is as unyielding and dogmatic about religious belief as true believers are about heathens. It tries to use reason to demolish a structure that is not built upon reason.” TryingDoeReasonUseHandsUniverseBeliefReligiousAtheismPositionEvidenceBuiltUltimatePhilosophicalRemainsStructureBelieverNeverthelessLackingPersuasionRespectableAgnosticismReligious BeliefDogmaticTrue BelieverHeathenUltimate TruthUnyieldingDemolish Book:Pieces of Eight Pa Source: Pieces of Eight Pa
“There's no evidence whatsoever that Darwin had anything useful to say or anything to say period about how life began or how the universe began or how gravity began or how physics began or fluid motion or how thermodynamics began. He had nothing to say about that whatsoever.” UniversePeriodsEvidencePhysicsGravityFluidThermodynamics Author:Ben Stein
“After all, to get the whole universe totally wrong in the face of clear evidence for over 75 years merits monumental embarrassment and should induce a modicum of humility.” ShouldYearsWholeFacesUniverseClearHumilityEvidenceMeritEmbarrassment Author:Halton Arp
“Science is a search for basic truths about the Universe, a search which develops statements that appear to describe how the Universe works, but which are subject to correction, revision, adjustment, or even outright rejection, upon the presentation of better or conflicting evidence.” UniverseSubjectsEvidenceStatementsRejectionPresentationAdjustmentCorrectionsRevision Author:James Randi
“It is immediately apparent, however, that this sense-world, this seemingly real external universe - though it may be useful and valid in other respects - cannot be the external world, but only the Self's projected picture of it ... The evidence of the senses, then, cannot be accepted as evidence of the nature of ultimate reality; useful servants, they are dangerous guides.” WorldMayRealSelfRealityUniverseDangerousEvidenceUltimateGuidesAcceptedSensesServantUltimate Reality Book:Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Man’s Spiritual Consciousness Source: Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Man’s Spiritual Consciousness
“No one knows who wrote the laws of physics or where they come from. Science is based on testable, reproducible evidence, and so far we cannot test the universe before the Big Bang.” KnowsBigsLawUniverseEvidenceTestsPhysicsBangsLaws Of Physics Author:Michio Kaku
“I have hitherto followed the lines marked out by the Theist in his attempt to prove that there exists a mind behind natural phenomena, and that the universe as we have it is, at least generally, an evidence of a plan designed by this mind. I have also pointed out that the only datum for such a conclusion is the universe we know. We must take that as a starting point. We can get neither behind it nor beyond it. We cannot start with God and deduce the universe from his existence; we must start with the world as we know it, and deduce God from the world.” KnowsWorldMindUniverseNaturalLinesBehindsExistencePlansAtheismProveEvidenceStartingPositive AtheismConclusionDataStarting PointTheistNatural Phenomena Author:Chapman Cohen
“I don't know whether the universe contains any evidence of intelligent design, but I can assure you that thousands of everyday products do not.” KnowsI CanUniverseDesignProductsEvidenceIntelligentEverydayIntelligent Design Author:Gary Hamel
“The language we're exchanging, the fillings in our teeth, the pavement on the road outside, everywhere you look, for better or for worse, you're going to see evidence that accepting reality is not a human's tendency, and not what we're good at, and not, in my speculation, what God or Natural Selection hired us to do. We've been hired, by this universe, to dream, to aspire, to make things that weren't real real - and because that involves a lot of failure, we're damn good at doing that, too.” HumansLooksRealDreamRealityUniverseLanguageNaturalAcceptingEvidenceTeethTendenciesDamnAspireSelectionSpeculationFillingNatural SelectionPavementExchangingAccepting RealityDamn GoodFilling In Author:Dan Harmon
“We should always keep an open mind about any new phenomenon in nature. To merely say that's impossible, therefore it doesn't exist, is to commit a serious error. A much better approach would be to say That's quite unlikely, but show me the evidence you have that says that it may be so. It would be the height of arrogance to think that man knows everything possible about the Universe or the Earth. There are many things yet to be discovered, and that is why we have scientific research (or any kind of research). That should be the rationalist's approach to parapsychology and the occult.” ThinkingKnowsMenShouldMindKindMayShowsWould BeEarthUniverseImpossibleAtheismSeriousApproachResearchEvidenceErrorsPositive AtheismCommitHeightArrogancePhenomenonShow MeUnlikelyOpen MindOccultScientific ResearchKeep An Open MindParapsychology Author:Gordon Stein
“From the very fact the universe is on the whole orderly, in a manner comprehensible to our intellect, is evidence that we and it were fashioned by a common intelligence.” WholeFactsUniverseCommonEvidenceScaryIntellectOrderly Author:Philip Johnson
“[The evidence from cosmology] determines that the cause of the universe is functionally equivalent to the God of the Bible, a Being beyond the matter, energy, space, and time of the cosmos.” MatterUniverseEnergyCausesSpaceEvidenceDetermineScaryCosmosTime And SpaceCosmology Author:Hugh Ross
“Even if I knew nothing of the atoms, I would venture to assert on the evidence of the celestial phenomena themselves, supported by many other arguments, that the universe was certainly not created for us by divine power: it is so full of imperfections.” IfsUniverseDivineEvidenceArgumentImperfectionAtomsVentureCelestialDivine Power Author:Lucretius