HEART OF THE TRUTH - ON THEOLOGY, LECTURE 3 - LAWS OF EVIDENCE paragraph 14 Importance of a correct knowledge of the LAWS OF EVIDENCE; Evidence and Proof, and their difference; Sources of evidence; Kinds and degrees of evidence; When objections are not, and when they are fatal; How objections are to be disposed of; On whom lies the burden of proof; Where proof or argument must begin.

14 Every form of religious skepticism, on the other hand, is ridiculous incredulity, founded in ignorance, or a disregard of the fundamental laws of evidence, as will be shown in its place.

HEART OF THE TRUTH - ON THEOLOGY, LECTURE 5 - ATHEISM paragraph 11 ATHEISM. Definition; different forms; Principal objections to Theism answered; Difficulties of Atheism.

11 I. Skeptical Atheism, or Atheistical Skepticism.
 
This form of Atheism professes to hold no opinion as to the existence of God, alleging that the evidence in favor of, and that against the divine existence, are too nearly balanced to afford any rational ground of conviction either way. Hume and some others have taken this ground.

HEART OF THE TRUTH - ON THEOLOGY, LECTURE 5 - ATHEISM paragraph 100 ATHEISM. Definition; different forms; Principal objections to Theism answered; Difficulties of Atheism.

100 1. To unsettle all belief, for if the evidence in favor of the existence of God, be rejected as inconclusive and insufficient to demand belief, it follows that nothing can be proved by evidence, and that universal skepticism on every subject, including our own existence, is the only reasonable state of mind.