When asked by Rod Liddle in the documentary The Trouble with Atheism "Give me your views on the existence, or otherwise, of God",Peter Atkins replied "Well it's fairly straightforward: there isn't one. And there's no evidence for one, no reason to believe that there is one, and so I don't believe that there is one. And I think that it is rather foolish that people do think that there is one.
Peter AtkinsMostra la citazione in tedesco
Mostra la citazione in francese
Mostra la citazione in italiano
It is not possible to be intellectually honest and believe in gods. And it is not possible to believe in gods and be a true scientist.
Peter AtkinsTag: honesty atheism atheist scientist
[Religious belief is] outmoded and ridiculous. [Belief in gods was a] worn out but once useful crutch in mankind's journey towards truth. We consider the time has come for that crutch to be abandoned.
Peter AtkinsTag: truth belief atheism atheist crutch
Well it's fairly straightforward: there isn't one [a god]. And there's no evidence for one, no reason to believe that there is one, and so I don't believe that there is one. And I think that it is rather foolish that people do think that there is one.
Peter AtkinsTag: reason atheism atheist evidence
[Religion is] a fantasy [and is] completely empty of any explanatory content. It is also evil.
Peter AtkinsTag: evil atheism fantasy atheist
My aim is to argue that the universe can come into existence without intervention, and that there is no need to invoke the idea of a Supreme Being in one of its numerous manifestations.
Peter AtkinsTag: atheism universe atheist causation
The challenge of elucidating living processes -- including consciousness and all its baggage which we bundle together as 'the human spirit' -- is only one example of a challenge where hard work is paying off and science does not need to accept the false explanations peddled by religions.
Peter AtkinsTag: consciousness atheism atheist spirit
[Religious belief is] outmoded and ridiculous. [Belief in gods was a] worn out but once useful crutch in mankind's journey towards truth. We consider the time has come for that crutch to be abandoned.
It is a vacuous answer... To say that 'God made the world' is simply a more or less sophisticated way of saying that we don't understand how the universe originated. A god, in so far as it is anything, is an admission of ignorance.
Religion utterly failed to provide an explanation of the biosphere other than that 'God made it all'. Then Darwin thundered over the horizon and in a few decades of observation and thought . . . arrived at an answer.
I regard teaching religion as purveying lies. I came here today to de-corrupt you all.
Tag: science power lies atheism atheist answers comprehension charles-darwin darwin biosphere vacuous
Theologians could not even agree about the nature of their gods. These personages ranged from "blue touch-paper gods" who started everything and never interfered again, to "infinitely meddlesome gods who, as well as starting it off, police every elementary particle.
Peter AtkinsTag: excuses
I regard teaching religion as purveying lies.
Peter AtkinsPagina 1 di 2.
prossimo ultimo »
Data privacy
Imprint
Contact
Diese Website verwendet Cookies, um Ihnen die bestmögliche Funktionalität bieten zu können.