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“Doing science is not inherently incompatible with religious faith.”

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George Coyne, born on January 19, 1933, is a renowned priest. He has made significant contributions to the fields of astronomy and religious philosophy, particularly in the relationship between cosmology and religion. more

“However the great successes of science - Galileo's telescopic observations, Newton's law of gravity, etc - all of this great success caused people to sort of say, what if we could establish religion on that same successful basis? What if we could have a good rational foundation for religious belief. What if religion could be sort of like science. Of course, that can't be.”

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“The whole dimension of religious belief requires transcendence, it requires going beyond what you can establish rationally.”

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“The technological overflow from scientific research has brought scientific research this bad name about carrying an irresponsibility and an alienation from God - because scientific research has led to things like the atom bomb, it's led to problems with depletion of ozone in the Earth's atmosphere, or at least it's revealed those problems.”

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“People tend not to disassociate the technological issues from pure scientific research, so that science sometimes gets a bad name for things that science doesn't deserve having a bad name for.”

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“I hope I'm not giving the impression of an ivory tower science, but for me science is an attempt to understand, it's an attempt to understand the universe.”

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“I can't see for the life of me how an attempt to understand the universe, which I believe comes from God, can alienate us from God.”

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“The Christian church has a long history of gradually absorbing scientific perspectives and new discoveries. It seems to me that, in fact, that has been one of the strengths of Christianity - it has ultimately had great flexibility in absorbing new information about the world that we get from science.”

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“Christianity has always had sort of an ability to absorb the developments in science. But, it's always done it very slowly.”

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“The Copernican revolution was actually a contribution to the life of the church, the development of our view of ourselves in terms of the Universe, and therefore our view of God, et cetera. But, that took centuries, and struggles, and conflicts before that happened.”

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“I think today the church faces a very real challenge in not repeating the errors of the past, in sort of a stand off, a fear of science.”

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