Quotes About Evidence

Belief cannot reliably govern life and action except in its proper connection with knowledge and with the truth and evidence knowledge involves.

The Gospel accounts cannot be considered historical, but even if they were, they tell us that the earliest biography of Jesus contains no resurrection!

To sum up: 1) There is no external historical confirmation for the Jesus story outside of the New Testament. 2) The New Testament accounts are internally contradictory. 3) There are many other plausible explanations for the origin of the myth that do not require us to distort or destroy the natural worldview. 4) The miracle reports make the story highly suspect.

It could also be applied to the Moonies, Jehovah's Witnesses and many other successful religious movements. If smoke is evidence of fire, are they all true?

if a miracle is defined as some kind of violation, suspension, overriding or punctuation of natural law, then miracles cannot be historical.

This is evidence that goodness and wickedness in the bible have nothing to do with morality.

everything we've seen is deeply disturbing, but we cannot ignore these chondrules. The evidence in favor is conclusive, while the evidence against is circumstantial.

Widespread acceptance of a fact is not a proof of its validity.

rational mind had always justified these accounts as part of the myth. They were simply the result of man's greatest weakness – his need for proof. Miracles were nothing but stories we all clung to because we wished they were true. And

But faith," Edmond declared, "by its very definition, requires placing your trust in something that is unseeable and indefinable, accepting as fact something for which there exists no empirical evidence.

But faith by its very definition, requires placing your trust in something that unseeable and indefinable, accepting something of which there exists no empirical evidence. And so, understandably, we all end up placing our faith in different things because if there is no universal truth. - Edmond Kirsch

The day science substantiates God in a lab is the day people stop needing faith!

Ajatuksen yleinen hyväksyntä ei ole todiste sen oikeellisuudesta.

there's a body

CredinÈ›a ne impunem s? credem în ceva invizibil È™i inefabil, s? accept?m ca adev?r un lucru pentru care nu exist? dovezi empirice. ?i astfel, ajungem s? credem în lucruri diferite, deoarece nu exist? un adev?r universal.

For centuries, most of the devout had looked past vast amounts of scientific data and rational logic in defense of their faith.

?tiinÈ›a este încercarea de a g?si dovezi fizice pentru ceea ce este necunoscut sau înc? nedefinit, de a respinge superstitiÈ›iile È™i percepÈ›iile greÈ™ite în favoarea adev?rurilor observabile. Când È™tiinÈ›a ofer? un r?spuns, acesta este universal. Iar omenirea nu se r?zboieÈ™te din cauza lui, ci face front comun în jurul lui.

que me preocupa es que Leonardo Vetra prácticamente demostró la existencia de Dios, y sin embargo usted ha hecho que lo asesinen!

Learning to address concerns methodically, with reference to logic and empirical evidence, is one of the most useful things an anxious person can do.

The emotional mind takes its beliefs to be absolutely true, and so discounts any evidence to the contrary. That is why it is so hard to reason with someone who is emotionally upset: no matter the soundness of your argument from a logical point of view, it carries no weight if it is out of keeping with the emotional conviction of the moment.

Cada vez es mayor la evidencia de que los pacientes deprimidos que se hallan aquejados de una enfermedad grave también deberían recibir tratamiento para su depresión.

This is what creationists say of evolution, that it's "only" a theory, it hasn't been proved, as though this in itself is grounds for dismissal. This misrepresents the point of formulating a theory, which is to make sense of some body of evidence.

We know that men are saved by repentance and faith, and whoever does call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. But salvation is a supernatural work of God that will always produce fruit. And the evidence, not the cause, but the evidence of salvation is a changed life, a changing life.

"Don't you find it a little bit (of a) coincidence that the body fell perfectly within the chalk outline on the floor?"|"I think they drew the chalk outline later."|"Ah!"