I don't endorse deism or interventionist theism. My point is just that evolutionary biology is logically compatible with the former and with some versions of the latter.
If it is to be established that there is a God, then we have to have good grounds for believing that this is indeed so. Until and unless some such grounds are produced we have literally no reason at all for believing; and in that situation the only reasonable posture must be that of either the negative atheist or the agnostic. So the onus of proof has to rest on the proposition of theism.
If one believes in a god, one is a Theist. If one does not believe in a god, then one is an A-theist — he is without that belief. The distinction between atheism and theism is entirely, exclusively, that of whether one has or has not a belief in God.
It turns out that the word atheism means much less than I had thought. It is merely the lack of theism.
Atheism is the last word of theism
Don't set out to teach theism from your natural history. . . You spoil both.
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
Christianity is not a mere religion but an experimentally testable science.
This is not to deny that there are versions of theism that do conflict with evolutionary biology. Young Earth Creationism is an example; it claims that God created life on earth within the past 10,000 to 50,000 years. But other types of theism are different.
Consciously or unconsciously, most theists see in gods and devils, heaven and hell, reward and punishment, a whip to lash the people into obedience, meekness and contentment. . . . The philosophy of atheism expresses the expansion and growth of the human mind. The philosophy of theism, if we can call it a philosophy, is static and fixed.
We know that nature is described by the best of all possible mathematics because God created it.
Theism is so confused and the sentences in which "God" appears so incoherent and so incapable of verifiability or falsifiability that to speak of belief or unbelief, faith or unfaith, is logically impossible.
The struggle against atheism is foremost and of necessity a struggle against the inadequacy of our own theism.
Anti-theism presupposes Theism
When I hear that a friend has fallen into matrimony, I feel the same sorrow as if I had heard of his lapsing into theism.
The opposite of theism is not atheism, it’s idolatry
Pantheism is sexed-up atheism. Deism is watered-down theism.
