Sentences with phrase «nontheists in»

There are ~ 6 - 12x more nontheists in USA than atheists (the former include agnostics, and arguably, undecideds).

Does it accurately represent the sentiments of nontheists in this country?

Not exact matches

In 1975 then - president Robert Nelson West could say: «Some are theists, some nontheists; some consider themselves Christians, others non-Christians.»

The Secular Coalition for America said Stark responded in 2007 to an inquiry from that group by saying he was a «nontheist.»

Alvin Plantinga, explaining the vehemence with which atheists like Dawkins use evolution as a weapon against theism, says that, «For the nontheist, evolution is the only game in town; it is an essential part of any reasonably complex nontheistic way of thinking...» (Plantinga 18 - 19).

«But atheist, agnostic and humanist students suffer the same problems as religious students — deaths or illnesses in the family, questions about the meaning of life, etc. — and would like a sympathetic nontheist to talk to.»

Unlike Cox, who concludes that the theist and nontheist encounter the same reality but name it differently, I perceive a fundamental difference in the primordial experience of ultimate reality.

Plantinga plays «defense» because he is an adherent of a popular epistemic perspective — affirmed by many theists and nontheists alike — that maintains that defense is all that is required with respect to beliefs formed the way Plantinga contends that belief in God is formed for most «intellectually sophisticated adult theists» (FP 3: 312).

From his obituary, Charles T. Beaird «was a «nontheist,» meaning in simplistic terms that the concept of God was not among the ideas on which he based his beliefs — but that if you did, it was fine with him.»