Antony Flew Quotes

If we do get a quantum theory of spacetime, it should answer some of the deepest philosophical questions that we have, like what happened before the big bang?

In good philosophy, the word cause ought to be reserved to the single Divine impulse that has formed the universe.

I don't think God is an explanation at all. It's simply redescribing the problem.

If you believe in god, it's much more fantastic to believe that he created this universe billions of years ago and set in motion this long train of activities that eventually resulted in us. I think that's so much more satisfying, more thrilling, than the idea that it was all done in seven days.

It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago.

The facts may tell you one thing. But, God is not limited by the facts. Choose faith in spite of the facts.

I believe God did create the world. And I think we're finding out more and more and more as to how it actually happened.

Creation,' in the ordinary sense of the word, is perfectly conceivable. I find no difficulty in conceiving that, at some former period, this universe was not in existence, and that it made its appearance in six days (or instantaneously, if that is preferred), in consequence of the volition of some preexisting Being.

I cannot prove that gods do not exist. Nor can I prove that the world and everything in it was not created by an entity or entities in the distant past. But I can tell you that in the millennia we elves have studied nature, we have never witnessed an instance where the rules that govern the world have been broken. That is, we have never seen a miracle. Many events have defied our ability to explain, but we are convinced that we failed because we are still woefully ignorant about the universe and not because a deity altered the workings of nature.

God was invented to explain mystery. God is always invented to explain those things that you do not understand.

[C]reationists [and] other religious enthusiasts [are], in many parts of the world ..., the most dangerous adversaries of science.

The nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it.

Suppose we were to teach creationism. What would be the content of the teaching? Merely that a creator formed the universe and all species of life ready-made? Nothing more? No details?

... [ellipsis in source] it is true that the world was made in six days, but it was by God, to whose power the infirmity of men isnot to be compared.

I can't bring myself to believe in a God with a personality like my own. I base that on the paucity of lightning attacks on people who deserve it.

Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man

Scatter money in a crowd, how they scramble for it; offer bread to the starving, how greedily they seize it; throw a rope to the drowning, how he eagerly grasps it! With like eagerness and earnestness may the Spirit of God help you to lay hold on Christ.

The moon is so beautiful. It's a big silver dollar, flipped by God. And it landed scarred side up, see? So He made the world.

The Lord took twice the time making thee, Alvin Smith, cause it took that long to put the mischief in.

However good an argument in philosophy may happen to be, it is generally not good enough.

To the covetous man life is a nightmare, and God lets him wrestle with it as best he may.

If God is to create or to preserve a creature, God must be present and must make and preserve God's creation both in its innermost and outermost aspects.

Because we are the handiwork of God, it follows that all our problems and their solutions are theological.

Your troubles may point you to death and destruction, but God's Word points you to life.

Religion supposed Heaven and Hell, the word of God, and sacraments, and twenty other circumstances which, taken seriously, are a wonderful check to wit and humour.