Evidence?

Sheila Semple considers experience and evidence

by Sheila Semple 20th July 2018

‘It is not true, as theism asserted, that there is a personal being above and beyond the world that literally created the world and intervenes in its affairs as an external agent. There is no evidence for such a being in experience or science.’

– God, words and us

The quotation above, by Rex Ambler and an Open Space working group, is from a section headed A distinctive Quaker approach to God in the book God, words and us: Quakers in conversation about religious difference, edited by Helen Rowlands. Seeing this statement has prompted this article.