Top 5 Peter van Inwagen Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “It looks to me as if Darwinians are like someone who, having observed that tugboats sometimes maneuver ocean liners in tight places by directing high-pressure streams of water at them, concludes that he has discovered the method by which the liners cross the Atlantic.”

— Peter van Inwagen

2. “It used to be widely held that evil was incompatible with the existence of God: that no possible world contained both God and evil. So far as I am able tell, this thesis is no longer defended.”

— Peter van Inwagen

3. “I don’t know about ‘common sense opinion’ by the way. It seems to me that the office of common sense is to keep us from playing cards for high stakes with people we meet on trains, and not to endorse metaphysical opinions.”

— Peter van Inwagen

4. “You certainly wouldn’t want to invest much time in an argument with someone who would believe it in the first place.”

— Peter van Inwagen

5. “At some point, for all eternity, there will be no more unmerited suffering: this present darkness, “the age of evil”, will eventually be remembered as a brief flicker at the beginning of human history. Every evil done by the wicked to the innocent will have been avenged, and every tear will have been wiped away.”

— Peter van Inwagen

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