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George Coyne

As a religious priest I find it a very enriching experience to do my scientific research.

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Because God is reflected in the world in which me made, in some sense, my scientific investigation has always supported my belief in God in a very real sense. It helps me to pray better.

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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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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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Doing science is not inherently incompatible with religious faith.

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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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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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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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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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I have never come to know God, to see God, to believe in God through doing science. He’s not the conclusion of some sort of process of my personal scientific investigation.

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Quotes by George Coyne

George Coyne

As a religious priest I find it a very enriching experience to do my scientific research.

Because God is reflected in the world in which me made, in some sense, my scientific investigation has always supported my belief in God in a very real sense. It helps me to pray better.

Being a scientist helps to support both my life as a Jesuit and my belief in God.

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

Doing science is not inherently incompatible with religious faith.

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.

I don’t use scientific data as a foundation for believing in God – I use it as an enrichment of my knowledge of God.

I have never come to know God, to see God, to believe in God through doing science. He’s not the conclusion of some sort of process of my personal scientific investigation.

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