One possibility is: God is nothing but the power of the universe to organize itself.
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Quote:- One reader of an early draft of this chapter complained at this point, saying that by treating the hypothesis of God as just one more scientific hypothesis, to be evaluated by the standards of science in particular and rational thought in general, Dawkins and I are ignoring the very widespread claim by believers in God that their faith is quite beyond reason, not a matter to which such mundane methods of testing applies. It is not just unsympathetic, he claimed, but strictly unwarranted for me simply to assume that the scientific method continues to apply with full force in this domain of truth.Very well, let's consider the objection. I doubt that the defender of religion will find it attractive, once we explore it carefully.The philosopher Ronaldo de Souza once memorably described philosophical theology as "intellectual tennis without a net," and I readily allow that I have indeed been assuming without comment or question up to now that the net of rational judgement was up. But we can lower it if you really want to.It's your serve.Whatever you serve, suppose I return service rudely as follows: "What you say implies that God is a ham sandwich wrapped in tin foil. That's not much of a God to worship!". If you then volley back, demanding to know how I can logically justify my claim that your serve has such a preposterous implication, I will reply: "oh, do you want the net up for my returns, but not for your serves?Either way the net stays up, or it stays down. If the net is down there are no rules and anybody can say anything, a mug's game if there ever was one. I have been giving you the benefit of the assumption that you would not waste your own time or mine by playing with the net down.
Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
Author:- Daniel C. Dennett
Category:- science
Quote:- One reason for not giving up, not quitting, is that the great tales are told about those who refused to surrender - those who ventured forward in hope... Real heroism... requires us to struggle with hope, yet without the assurance of victory.
Author:- Ralph C. Woods
Category:- hope
Quote:- One relationship turns toxic when your selfishness goes wild by consuming its sweetness as a tonic
Author:- Srinivas Mishra
Category:- Relationships
Quote:- One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: ‘To rise above little things’.
Author:- John Burroughs
Category:- motivational,hope
Quote:- One salutary development in recent ethical theorizing is the widespread recognition that no short argument will serve to eliminate any of the major metaethical positions. Such theories have to weave together views in semantics, epistemology, moral psychology and metaphysics. The comprehensive, holistic character of much recent theorizing suggests the futility of fastening on just a single sort of argument to refute a developed version of realism or antirealism. No one any longer thinks that ethical naturalism can be undermined in a single stroke by the open question argument, or that appeal to the descriptive semantics of moral discourse is sufficient to refute noncognitivism.
Author:- Russ Shafer-Landau
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- One says the things which one feels the need to say, and which the other will not understand: one speaks for oneself alone.
Author:- Marcel Proust
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.
Paris Spleen
Author:- Charles Baudelaire
Category:- poetry
Quote:- One should always hark back to this very simple formula of karma: how you treat others is how karma treats you.
Author:- Mohith Agadi
Category:- best
Quote:- One should be revitalized and reborn at every beat and with each new breath.
Journey of Soul - Karma
Author:- Shree Shambav
Category:- motivational
Quote:- One should measure their life by the faith they embrace and the relationships they cherish
Author:- John Paul Warren
Category:- motivational
Quote:- One should write only those books from whose absence one suffers. In short: the ones you want on your own desk.
Earthly Signs: Moscow Diaries, 1917–1922
Author:- Marina Tsvetaeva
Category:- poetry
Quote:- One sin seldom mentioned is that of killing time.
The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
Author:- Vera Nazarian
Category:- time
Quote:- One sometimes finds what one is not looking for
Author:- Alexander Fleming
Category:- science
Quote:- One summer afternoon our bodies turned into each other's. Your breath played lye strings on my neck. If they ask you tell them that was the closest I came to being alive.
Author:- Ayushee Ghoshal
Category:- Love
Quote:- One sure way to kill a dream, is to suffocate it with worry.
Author:- TemitOpe Ibrahim
Category:- motivational
Quote:- One tends to look at life a whole lot differently when one realises they may lose it soon.-Emit Eht
Emit Eht
Author:- Ratna Srivastava
Category:- motivational
Quote:- One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge.
Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
Author:- Friedrich Nietzsche
Category:- knowledge