Antony Flew Quotes

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I would never regard Islam with anything but horror and fear because it is fundamentally committed to conquering the world for Islam.

Antony Flew
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 design.

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What would have to occur or to have occurred to constitute for you a disproof of the love of, or the existence of, God?

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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 eternally for any offence whatever.

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The evidence for the resurrection is better than for claimed miracles in any other religion. It's outstandingly different in quality and quantity.

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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 grounds are produced we have literally no reason at all for believing; and in that situation the only reasonable posture must be that of either the negative atheist or the agnostic. So the onus of proof has to rest on the proposition of theism.

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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.

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You cannot... transmute some incoherent mixture of words into sense merely by introducing the three-letter word "God" to be its grammatical subject.

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In the ordinary, everyday understandings of the words involved, to say that someone survived death is to contradict yourself; while to assert that all of us live forever is to assert a manifest falsehood, the flat contrary of a universally known truth: namely, the truth that all human beings are mortal. For when, after some disaster, the 'dead' and the 'survivors' have both been listed, what logical space remains for a third category?

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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 external origin is either probable or improbable. We do not have, and we necessarily could not have, experience of other Universes to tell us that Universes, or Universes with these particular features, are the work of Gods, or of Gods of this or that particular sort.

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