“It now requires such artful speculation to maintain an orthodox faith in chance. Skeptics, it would seem, are willing to believe anything.”

— Theodore Roszak

Source: The Gendered Atom: Reflections on the Sexual Psychology of Science (1999), Ch.9 Deep Community
Context: Or perhaps... there is actually an infinity of universes among which only this one has by sheer accident produced the conditions for life and mind. It now requires such artful speculation to maintain an orthodox faith in chance. Skeptics, it would seem, are willing to believe anything.

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American social historian, social critic, writer 1933–2011

Lionel Trilling (1905–1975) American academic

"The Novel Alive or Dead," A Gathering of Fugitives: New Essays (1956)

“The skepticism of the art establishment seems to be based on, as much as anything, a kind of big-city prejudice against work so free from urban angst. ~ Lynn Macritchie in Art in America”

Andy Goldsworthy (1956) British sculptor and photographer

April 1995

“Unsupported assertions of impossible absurdities are indistinguishable from the illusions of delusion, and no one should believe anything that requires faith. Because faith requires that we believe without question, without reservation, without reason. That is irrational, foolish; that’s what a fool is. Your Bible got it wrong. Any assertion that requires faith should be rejected for that reason.”

Aron Ra (1962) Aron Ra is an atheist activist and the host of the Ra-Men Podcast

Patheos, A Letter to a Certain Christian http://www.patheos.com/blogs/reasonadvocates/2013/10/12/a-letter-to-a-certain-christian/ (October 12, 2013)

“We humans are willing to believe anything rather than the truth.”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Shadow of the Wind

Variant: We are willing to believe anything other than the truth.
Source: The Shadow of the Wind

“Skepticism, riddling the faith of yesterday, prepared the way for the faith of tomorrow.”

Romain Rolland (1866–1944) French author

As quoted in The Great Quotations (1960) by George Seldes, p. 864

“What counts is not what sounds plausible, not what we would like to believe, not what one or two witnesses claim, but only what is supported by hard evidence rigorously and skeptically examined. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”

Carl Sagan (1934–1996) American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author and science educator

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Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990 Update), Encyclopedia Galactica [Episode 12]

“[The atheist's] faith is much greater than mine. I could never for a moment believe that all these things happened by chance. Never in a million years. But the believing atheist does, and he amazingly looks down intellectually on those that maintain that all this incredible creation wasn't an act of an incredible creator.”

Ray Comfort (1949) New Zealand-born Christian minister and evangelist

You Can Lead an Atheist to Evidence, But You Can't Make Him Think (2009)

“Is there anything that one couldn't believe based on faith?”

Matt Dillahunty (1969) American activist

Episode 20.26: "Religions Evolve" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isPmxOJFy9U, Atheist Community of Austin (July 3, 2016)
The Atheist Experience

“That would require an unprecedented leap of faith. I don’t do faith, Scorpio said.”

Alastair Reynolds book Absolution Gap

Source: Absolution Gap (2003), Chapter 33 (p. 515)

“I don't have anything else right now. But if given a chance, I would love to do a cookery show as I love cooking.”

Dipika Kakar (1986) Indian actress

TV shows not far from reality http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tv/news/hindi/Dipika-Kakar-TV-shows-not-far-from-reality-but-dramatic/articleshow/54424815.cms

“It now requires such artful speculation to maintain an orthodox faith in chance. Skeptics, it would seem, are willing to believe anything.”

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