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Being a scientist helps to support both my life as a Jesuit and my belief in God.
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God gave me the gift of faith. I don't mean that in any miraculous sense, I mean through the parents who educated me, through the brothers and sisters I grew up with, the schools I went to, there was this influence upon me which was the faith, in the concrete. I accepted it, I questioned it, I grew up with it, and in the end, as a mature adult, I continue to accept it.
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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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I don't use scientific data as a foundation for believing in God - I use it as an enrichment of my knowledge of God.
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Neither of us can come to either a knowledge of God, or a denial of God by our scientific research.