George Coyne Quotes
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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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In a very real sense my science does inform my knowledge of God. If you would allow me to say that we never know God, because if I claim that I know God, I know something other than God, because God is not knowable, he is unknowable. So we have to approach it in that sense first, that my knowledge of God is always limited.
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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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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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Neither of us can come to either a knowledge of God, or a denial of God by our scientific research.