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Religious and philosophical views of Albert Einstein. Albert Einstein's religious views have been widely studied and often misunderstood. [ 1] Albert Einstein stated "I believe in Spinoza's God ". [ 2] He did not believe in a personal God who concerns himself with fates and actions of human beings, a view which he described as naïve. [ 3]
Atheism – rejection of belief in the existence of deities. [ 1] In a narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there are no deities. [ 2][ 3] Most inclusively, atheism is simply the absence of belief that any deities exist. [ 3][ 4] Atheism is contrasted with theism, [ 5][ 6] which in its most general form is the belief that ...
Antony Garrard Newton Flew ( / fluː /; 11 February 1923 – 8 April 2010) [ 1] was an English philosopher. Belonging to the analytic and evidentialist schools of thought, Flew worked on the philosophy of religion. During the course of his career he taught philosophy at the universities of Oxford, Aberdeen, Keele, and Reading in the United ...
The argument from consciousness is an argument for the existence of God that claims characteristics of human consciousness (such as qualia) cannot be explained by the physical mechanisms of the human body and brain, therefore asserting that there must be non-physical aspects to human consciousness. This is held as indirect evidence of God ...
The term atheist (from the French athée ), in the sense of "one who ... denies the existence of God or gods", [ 11] predates atheism in English, being first found as early as 1566, [ 12] and again in 1571. [ 13] Atheist as a label of practical godlessness was used at least as early as 1577. [ 14]
The Dutch title of the book translates as Believing in a God Who Does Not Exist: Manifesto of An Atheist Pastor. Hendrikse writes in the book that "God is for me not a being but a word for what can happen between people. Someone says to you, for example, 'I will not abandon you', and then makes those words come true.
The existence of a creation, and therefore of a creator deity; That a god (deva), gods, or other divine beings are the source of moral imperatives. Instead, the Dharma is an attribution of the universe; That human beings or other creatures are responsible to a god or gods for their actions
Atheistic existentialism is the exclusion of any transcendental, metaphysical, or religious beliefs from philosophical existentialist thought (e.g. anguish or rebellion in light of human finitude and limitations). Nevertheless, it shares elements with religious existentialism (e.g. the philosophy of Søren Kierkegaard) and with metaphysical ...