Answer to Dr. Priestley's Letters to a Philosophical Unbeliever by Matthew Turner
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INADMISSIBLE OR INCONCLUSIVE.
1. "The question of the existence of a Deity is important." 2. "A Theist has a higher sense of personal dignity than an atheist." 3. "The conduct of an atheist must give concern to those who are not so." 4. "An atheist believes himself to be, at his death, for ever excluded from returning life." 5. "There are more atheists than unbelievers in revelation." 6. "Men of letters may have the same bias to incredulity as others to credulity, because they are subject to a wrong association of ideas, as well as other persons though in a less degree." 7. "Whoever first made a thing, for example a chair or a table, must have had an adequate idea of it's nature and use." 8. "If a table had a designing cause, the tree from whence the wood came, and the man who made the table must have had a designing cause, which comprehended all the powers and properties of trees and men." 9. "All the visible universe, as far as we can judge, bears the marks of being one work, and therefore must have had a cause of infinite power and intelligence." |
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