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Continues to be challenging and enlightening. This series is so dense I find myself re-reading entire passages, and marking others to come back to later. I make notes in my bible stating: see page whatever from Wright. SheeshAnd I only finished Vol 1 ...more "
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For a contemporary reader, the book brilliantly evokes a mentality which no longer exists, and which is increasingly difficult to describe or explain: the atmosphere of constant fear; the constant temptation of betrayal; the ubiquity of
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Except of course in Communist China, Notth Korea and Cuba (oh, and modern Russia these days)
“For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance, he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries.”
― God and the Astronomers
― God and the Astronomers
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