Guy Consolmagno Quotes

#1. Nothing within the universe itself can exist to explain the fact that it exists.

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#2. Intelligent Design has been hijacked by a narrow group of creationist fundamentalists in America to mean something it didn't originally mean at all. It's another form of the God of the gaps. It's bad theology in that it turns God once again into the pagan god of thunder and lightning.

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#3. Everyone has a religion, whether they admit it or not. For some it's Catholicism; for others, Vegetarianism or Elvis or Linux/Macintosh/Windows.

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#4. A scientist works largely by intuition. Given enough experience, a scientist examining a problem can leap to an intuition as to what the solution 'should look like.' ... Science is ultimately based on insight, not logic.

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#5. he is able to appear inside locked rooms and come and go in ways an ordinary body could not do.

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#6. Steven Hawking is a brilliant physicist and when it comes to theology I can say he's a brilliant physicist.

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#7. true art, be it painting or novel or drama or music, selects and arranges.

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#8. 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.

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#9. Few of us have the power to heal broken legs, but we all have the power to forgive our neighbor. Yet how often do we do so?

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