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Evolution is the evidence of time.

—Khalid Masood

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It’s natural to think that living things must be the handiwork of a designer. But it was also natural to think that the sun went around the earth. Overcoming naive impressions to figure out how...

—Steven Pinker

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DesignEvidenceIntuition
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In my qualified opinion as a Biblical scholar, there is ‘massive’ and overwhelming historical evidence that the New Testament manuscripts are in fact reliable.” ~R. Alan Woods [2013]

—R. Alan

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Christians must show that misery fits the good for heaven, while happiness prepares the bad for hell; that the wicked get all their good things in this life, and the good all their evil; that...

—Robert G.

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There is something stunningly narrow about how the Anthropic Principle is phrased. Yes, only certain laws and constants of nature are consistent with our kind of life. But essentially the same laws and constants are...

—Carl Sagan

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As to the ancient historians, from Herodotus to Tacitus, we credit them as far as they relate things probable and credible, and no further: for if we do, we must believe the two miracles which...

—Herodotus

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One or two steps alone do not guarantee the evidence of your success unless you have your own peculiar definition for success. And I assure you; that definition is wrong! Do it again and again!

—Israelmore Ayivor

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I was thought to be retarded as a child, and all the evidence indicates that I was.

—Guy Davenport

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The less evidence we have for what we believe is certain, the more violently we defend beliefs against those who don’t agree.

—Neil deGrasse

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We are betrayed by our maps of salience. They plot our narratives, identify our enemies and then coat them in distorting layer of loathing and dread. We feel that hunch – withdraw – and then...

—Will Storr

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Number three: Stay away from the church. In the battle over science vs. religion, science offers credible evidence for all the serious claims it makes. The church says, ‘Oh, it’s right here in this book,...

—Seth Mcfarlane

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AtheismEvidenceMagic
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The most confused you will ever get is when you try to convince your heart and spirit of something your mind knows is a lie.

—Shannon L. Alder

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Scientists still do not appear to understand sufficiently that all earth sciences must contribute evidence toward unveiling the state of our planet in earlier times, and that the truth of the matter can only be...

—Alfred Wegener

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Intellectually, what is stimulating to a young man is a problem of obvious practical importance. A young man learning economics, for example, ought to hear lectures from individualists and socialists, protectionists and free-traders, inflationists and...

—Bertrand Russell

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Quite recently the human descent theory has been stigmatized as the ‘gorilla theory of human ancestry.’ All this despite the fact that Darwin himself, in the days when not a single bit of evidence regarding...

—Henry Fairfield

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The plural of anecdote is not data.

—Marc Bekoff

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If I go out with no make-up and a tracksuit on, nobody comes up to me. And if they do, I won’t do a photo because I wouldn’t want any photographic evidence.

—Paloma Faith

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The evidence is overwhelming that birds are dinosaurs.

—Robert T.

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So I got on with the business of lawyering away at the evidence. Minimizing it. Defending Jacob.

—William Landay

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Evidence will terminate any short or long era of an argument.

—Bamigboye Olurotimi

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The Bible is a collection of stories and myths based on hearsay transmitted from generation to generation and which were recorded by many (40 +) different authors during a period spanning possibly 1,600 or more...

—Brian Baker

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If there’s a god, it knows exactly what it would take to convince me and has refused to provide it. In fact, it has gone to great lengths to hide any evidence of its existence....

—David G. McAfee

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The truth is for those that seek it!

—Gayle Nix

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Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.

—John Lubbock

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If someone doesn’t value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide to prove that they should value it? If someone doesn’t value logic, what logical argument could you provide to show the importance of...

—Sam Harris

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Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.

—Theodosius Dobzhansky

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The founder of a religion must be able to turn water into wine — cure with a word the blind and lame, and raise with a simple touch the dead to life. It was necessary...

—Robert G.

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The Use of the Understanding, in endeavouring to find out the Meaning of any Proposition whatsoever, in considering the nature and Evidence for or against it, and in judging of it according to the seeming...

—Anthony Collins

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Real evidence is usually vague and unsatisfactory. It has to be examined—sifted. But here the whole thing is cut and dried. No, my friend, this evidence has been very cleverly manufactured—so cleverly that it has...

—Agatha Christie

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I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I’ll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence for it. The wilder and more ridiculous...

—Isaac Asimov

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Evidence doesn’t always convince people of the truth, […] especially when the lie is what they prefer.

—Daniel Black

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It is the desire for explanations that are at once systematic and controllable by factual evidence that generates science; and it is the organization and classification of knowledge on the basis of explanatory principles that...

—Ernest Nagel

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DesireEvidenceExplanations
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Some readers may find it a curious or even unscientific endeavour to craft a criminological model of organised abuse based on the testimony of survivors. One of the standard objections to qualitative research is that...

—Michael Salter

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AccusationsAmnesiaAttack
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The denial of Christ has less to do with facts and more to do with the bent of what a person is prejudiced to conclude.

—Ravi Zacharias

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We’re surrounded by people who don’t make that distinction. If you say to them ‘there’s a monster living in my closet, you can’t see him, but you gotta have faith that he’s there’ people would...

—Seth Mcfarlane

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Reasoning with senselessness will never build faith. Faith is strengthened when you stop collecting fragmented signs and questionable hunches, in order to build an acceptable reason for your wrong decisions and less than desirable circumstances.

—Shannon L. Alder

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All my instincts are one way, and all the facts are the other, and I much fear that British juries have not yet attained that pitch of intelligence when they will give the preference to...

—Arthur Conan Doyle

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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widely spread belief is...

—Bertrand Russell

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BeliefBertrandEvidence
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For God to prove himself on demand, physically, would be a grave disappointment, and the strongest Christians should be considerably grateful that he chooses not to do so. The skeptic endlessly demands proof, yet God...

—Criss Jami

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To man has been given the grief, often, of seeing his gods overthrown and his altars crumbling; but to the wolf and the wild dog that have come in to crouch at man’s feet, this...

—Jack London

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…and when is enough proof enough?

—Jonathan Safran

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EvidenceFaithProof
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We cannot see how the evidence afforded by the unquestioned progressive development of organised existence—crowned as it has been by the recent creation of the earth’s greatest wonder, MAN, can be set aside, or its...

—Lyell

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ground rule” of science today which requires scientists to seek explanations in the world around us based upon what we can observe, test, replicate, and verify

—Robert T.

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EvidenceFalsifiableMaterialism
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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...

—Peter Atkins

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AtheismAtheistEvidence
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Nevertheless, scientific method is not the same as the scientific spirit. The scientific spirit does not rest content with applying that which is already known, but is a restless spirit, ever pressing forward towards the...

—Archibald E. Garrod

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Pain is life – the sharper, the more evidence of life.

—Charles Lamb

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EvidencePain
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If in some radical miracle, the Abrahamic God revealed his existence to the world, I’d accept the belief in the deity — but I still wouldn’t worship it. The jealous and angry God that justified...

—David G. McAfee

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BelieveEvidenceFirst-Borns
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Another very good test some readers may want to look up, which we do not have space to describe here, is the Casimir effect, where forces between metal plates in empty space are modified by...

—Gordon L.

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When even the brightest mind in our world has been trained up from childhood in a superstition of any kind, it will never be possible for that mind, in its maturity, to examine sincerely, dispassionately,...

—Mark Twain

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Tell a devout Christian that his wife is cheating on him, or that frozen yogurt can make a man invisible, and he is likely to require as much evidence as anyone else, and to be...

—Sam Harris

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Devout-ChristianEvidenceReason
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