Voltaire built a church to God at Ferney.
Can you believe that your great ancestors were apes?
Do you oppose the Bible and prefer its legitimate effects?
Huxley wants the Bible introduced into boarding schools.
Can you believe in design without believing in a designer?
Tyndal says the theory of evolution of species is utterly uncredited.
Can you believe that the type which made these letters set themselves up?
The _Saturday Review_ says Hume used to go to church sometimes in
Scotland.
Can you believe that mind is the result of blind, unintelligent,
mechanical forces?
Tyndal says spontaneous generation is the one essential pillar of
evolution of species.
Tyndal says the failures to produce spontaneous life by experimenting are
lamentable.
Collins insisted on his servants going to church “that they might not rob
or murder him.”
Can you believe that worlds hung themselves together and move themselves,
as one grand whole, through space?
Can you believe that the correllation of things in nature was without
design? that such adaptations as light to the eye was unintended?
Can you be honest in exerting your influence against the religion of Jesus
Christ while it is your candid conviction that a country is better off
with it than without it?
Do you sometimes say you prefer to live where there are churches and
Sunday-schools, and all their appliances for the bettering of the
condition of humanity, and at the same time constantly find fault with the
Bible and religion which creates such things? If such is your course, are
you strictly honest?