A Quote by Reinhold Niebuhr
The nuclear age has refuted the idea of progress and Marxism has been refuted by Stalinism. Therefore people have returned to the historic religion.
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[Dr. Constain James] refuted so well the aberrations of Darwinism.... [A system] which is repugnant at once to history, to the tradition of all people, to exact science, to observed facts, and even to reason itself, would seem to need no refutation. But the corruption of this age, the machinations of the perverse, the danger of the simple, demand that such fancies, altogether absurd though they are, should - since they borrow the mask of science - be refuted by true science.
The ideas of theologians are refuted by their adversaries, the ideas of scientists are refuted by their followers.
The idea of a superior or inferior race is a myth that has been completely refuted by anthropological evidence.
The claim that if people had a basic income they would become lazy is prejudiced and has been refuted many times in many places.
A false argument should be refuted, not named. That's the basic idea behind freedom of speech. Arguments by name-calling, rather than truth and light, can generally be presumed fraudulent.
Why, then, do I continue to claim that creationism isn't science? Simply because these relatively few statements have been tested and conclusively refuted.
Historical refutation as the definitive refutation.- In former times, one sought to prove that there is no God - today one indicates how the belief that there is a God arose and how this belief acquired its weight and importance: a counter-proof that there is no God thereby becomes superfluous.- When in former times one had refuted the 'proofs of the existence of God' put forward, there always remained the doubt whether better proofs might not be adduced than those just refuted: in those days atheists did not know how to make a clean sweep.
The absent are easily refuted.
There is the greatest difference between presuming an opinion to be true, because, with every opportunity for contesting it, it has not been refuted, and assuming its truth for the purpose of not permitting its refutation.
A sacrifice is best refuted by accepting it
A sacrifice is best refuted by accepting it.
As a world view, Darwinism cannot of course be refuted, since Faith is, always has been, and always will be, stronger than facts
As a world view, Darwinism cannot of course be refuted, since Faith is, always has been, and always will be, stronger than facts.
It must be possible for an empirical system to be refuted by experience.
Laughter and tears may not persuade, but they cannot be refuted.
The myth that men are the economic providers and women, mainly, are mothers and care givers in the family has now been thoroughly refuted. This family pattern has never been the norm, except in a narrow middle-class segment.
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