Instead Aleksandr Voloshin, the highest official in the Kremlin, was shown as Moses, bringing down tablets to the Israelites from a supreme being whose existence was shrouded in clouds above Mount Sinai.
An early adherent of the anthropic principle the notion that the universe contains conditions ideal for the development of living beings Peacocke concluded that a likely explanation for the existence of life was the existence of a supreme being.
"I think almost without exception the people I have spoken to are scientists and they do believe in the existence of a supreme being," he said.
An apprehension, awareness, or conviction of the existence of a supreme being, or more widely, of supernatural powers or influences controlling one's own, humanity's, or nature's destiny; also, such an apprehension, etc., accompanied by or arousing reverence, love, gratitude, the will to obey and serve, and the like...
The novel's low-culture excursions are balanced out by higher dealings: the other main plot concerns Roger's ongoing debate with Dale Kohler, a university researcher and computer expert who wants to use the power of computers to prove the existence of a supreme being.
The tenets of Rousseau's civil religion include the affirmation of the existence of a supreme being and of the afterlife, the principle that the just will prosper and the wicked will be punished, and the claim that the social contract and the laws are sacred.
To clarify, the dictionary definition of atheist is 'a person who denies or disbelieves the existence of a supreme being or beings.' Are you confused about your faith, or lack thereof?
Spinoza's denial, on the basis of strict philosophical reasoning, of the existence of a transcendent supreme being, his identification of God with nature, gives strong impetus to the strands of atheism and naturalism that thread through Enlightenment philosophy.
