Quotes by Tim Maudlin

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“Theism, as religious people typically hold it, does not merely state that some entity created the universe, but that the universe was created specifically with humans in mind as the most important ...”
— Tim Maudlin
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“The biblical account of the origin of the cosmos in Genesis, for example, posits that a god created the physical universe particularly with human beings in mind, and so unsurprisingly placed the Ea...”
— Tim Maudlin
atheism biblical big-bang cosmology

“Atheism is the default position in any scientific inquiry, just as a-quarkism or a-neutrinoism was. That is, any entity has to earn its admission into a scientific account either via direct evidenc...”
— Tim Maudlin
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