“What would have to occur or to have occurred to constitute for you a disproof of the love of, or the existence of, God?”

— Antony Flew

Theology and Falsification, 1950

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British analytic and evidentialist philosopher 1923–2010

Phil Vischer (1966) American puppeter

Source: Me, Myself, & Bob (2006), p. 251

“Subatomic particles do not exist but rather show 'tendencies to exist', and atomic events do not occur with certainty at definite times and in definite ways, but rather show 'tendencies to occur'.”

Fritjof Capra book The Turning Point

Source: The Turning Point (1982), p. 82.
Source: The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism
Context: At the subatomic level, matter does not exist with certainty at definite places, but rather shows "tendencies to exist," and atomic events do not occur with certainty at definite times and in definite ways, but rather show "tendencies to occur."

“The secret irony pervading these arguments [on objections to the goodness of God] is that they would never have occurred to consciences that had not in some profound way been shaped by the moral universe of a Christian culture.”

David Bentley Hart (1965) American theologian

Source: The Doors of the Sea (2005), Chapter 1, Section 2, location 144

“You'll be loved you'll be loved
Like you never have known
The memories of me
Will seem more like bad dreams
Just a series of blurs
Like I never occurred
Someday you will be loved”

Ben Gibbard (1976) American singer, songwriter and guitarist

Someday You Will Be Loved
Plans (2005)

“Elements (lines of code) in a coincidentally-cohesive module have no relationship. Typically occurs as the result of modularizing existing code, to separate out redundant code.”

Ed Yourdon (1944–2016) American software engineer and pioneer in the software engineering methodology

Source: Structured design: fundamentals of a discipline of computer program and systems design (1979), p. 109; as cited in " Design http://swansonsoftware.com/acme/default.asp" at swansonsoftware.com Draft Version 0.9, December 3 2005.

“There may have been times when I wondered if there might be a God, but it always seemed to me wildly implausible that a God worth worshipping could allow the Holocaust to occur.”

Peter Singer (1946) Australian philosopher

Interview with the Jewish Chronicle https://www.thejc.com/lifestyle/interviews/peter-singer-is-he-really-the-most-dangerous-man-in-the-world-1.34980, Dan Goldberg, 16 August, 2012.