Quotes About Evidence

Faith does not offer a strong link between our beliefs and actual states of the world.

If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced.

The ultimate verification of our religion consists of the changed lives to which it can point and for which it is responsible.

I am an atheist because there is no evidence for the existence of God. That should be all that needs to be said about it: no evidence, no belief.

Reason bases its decisions on evidence available to everyone, and allows people to disagree when evidence is lacking. Religion will never do that.

There are no good reasons to believe in god.

The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

RELIGION: A set of beliefs held as dogmas, dominating the conduct of life, going beyond or contrary to evidence, and inculcated by methods which are emotional or authoritarian, not intellectual.

Christianity is a very historical religion - it makes specific claims that are open to testing.

Christianity is not a mere religion but an experimentally testable science.

What I'm asking you to entertain is that there is nothing we need to believe on insufficient evidence in order to have deeply ethical and spiritual lives.

There is zero evidence for god.

In religion, faith is a virtue. In science, faith is a vice.

Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that.

to rest one's case on faith means to concede that reason is on the side of one's enemies- that one has no rational arguments to offer.

People who demand signs never believe them when they come.

Most true believers, when faced with evidence that contradicts their beliefs, will hold on to those beliefs even more strongly.

You cannot be both sane and well educated and disbelieve in evolution. The evidence is so strong that any sane, educated person has got to believe in evolution.

If I were ever prosecuted for my religion, I truly hope there would be enough evidence to convict me.

The faith of religion is belief on insufficient evidence.

Historically, it is quite doubtful whether Christ ever existed at all, and if He did we do not know anything about Him.

We have fossils... We win!

No human testimony can have such force as to prove a miracle, and make it a just foundation for any such system of religion

Science deals in evidence and uncertainty. Religion deals in certainty without evidence.