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I don't accept the currently fashionable assertion that any view is automatically as worthy of respect as any equal and — Douglas Adams
God is an hypothesis, and, as such, stands in need of proof: the onus probandi rests on the theist. — Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Necessity of Atheism and Other Essays
I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a fiction. The Christian — Bertrand Russell, Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects
For God to prove himself on demand, physically, would be a grave disappointment, and the strongest Christians should be — Criss Jami, Killosophy
...if you ask me whether or not I'm an atheist, I wouldn't even answer. I would first want an explanation of what it is — Noam Chomsky
Shrines! Shrines! Surely you don't believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof? — Aristophanes, The Knights
A theist can't empirically prove that God exists but he believes in God because no one can allegedly disprove God's exis — G.M. Jackson, How to Prove God Does Not Exist
Either god exists or it doesn’t exist. If a god does exist, it either interacts with the universe in some detectable way — Matt Dillahunty
...what about the stone, Mr Lovegood? The thing you call the Resurrection Stone?""What of it?""Well, how can that be rea — J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter: The Deathly Hallows
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 — David G. McAfee
The Oracle pursued a logical course of confuting theism, and leaving 'a-theism' the negative result. It did not, in the — J.M. Robertson, A History of Free Thought in the Nineteenth Century V1
Given our abundance, the burden of proof should always be on keeping, not giving. Why would you not give? We err by begi — Randy Alcorn, Money, Possessions and Eternity