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“Edwin tells us that he became an atheist in college; but as he grew to know the limits of science and then began seeing what he called “too many coincidences” in the universe, his atheism slipped to agnosticism. Then, he recalls, a professor showed him that you could find truth in poetry and once said to him that “an agnostic is an atheist with no courage.” That clearly shook Edwin’s easy agnosticism.”
― God's Mechanics: How Scientists and Engineers Make Sense of Religion
― God's Mechanics: How Scientists and Engineers Make Sense of Religion
“To put it another way, I am not trying to convince you; I am trying to convince myself.”
― God's Mechanics: How Scientists and Engineers Make Sense of Religion
― God's Mechanics: How Scientists and Engineers Make Sense of Religion
“For what it’s worth, in my experience astronomers are more likely than biologists to be believers. But several surveys, more scientific than my anecdotal experiences, have confirmed that in academic settings, the real atheists are to be found in English Literature departments.”
― God's Mechanics: How Scientists and Engineers Make Sense of Religion
― God's Mechanics: How Scientists and Engineers Make Sense of Religion
“Beauty is worth looking for.”
― God's Mechanics: How Scientists and Engineers Make Sense of Religion
― God's Mechanics: How Scientists and Engineers Make Sense of Religion
“No matter how deeply we believe God is involved in our religion, its tenets are expressed in human words by human teachers and fall on our own undeniably limited human ears. Our understanding of God is always incomplete; even Saint Paul insisted he saw only “through a glass, darkly.” Indeed, Catholic theology carefully notes that all doctrine, no matter how authoritative, embodying divine truth, still requires interpretation because our understanding of that truth is expressed in a given time and in a historically conditioned language and culture.”
― God's Mechanics: How Scientists and Engineers Make Sense of Religion
― God's Mechanics: How Scientists and Engineers Make Sense of Religion
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