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Whitehead reacted strongly against the idea of God as a cosmic tyrant, one who brings about everything.

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When you realize that the laws of nature must be incredibly finely tuned to produce the universe we see, that conspires to…
Science and religion...are friends, not foes, in the common quest for knowledge. Some people may find this surprising, for there's a feeling…
The test of a theory is its ability to cope with all the relevant phenomena, not its a priori 'reasonableness'. The latter…
Mathematics is the abstract key which turns the lock of the physical universe.
I think it's very important to maintain the classical Christian distinction between the Creator and creation.
Bottom up thinkers try to start from experience and move from experience to understanding. They don't start with certain general principles they…
Nevertheless, all of us who work in quantum physics believe in the reality of a quantum world, and the reality of quantum…
I'm a very passionate believer in the unity of knowledge. There is one world of reality - one world of our experience…
The remarkable insights that science affords us into the intelligible workings of the world cry out for an explanation more profound than…
Well, it's because I gladly acknowledge some ideas that are part of process theology, but which I think are not tied to…
Of course, Einstein was a very great scientist indeed, and I have enormous respect for him, and great admiration for the discoveries…
I also think we need to maintain distinctions - the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and we should…

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My relationship with death remains the same - I'm strongly against it. — Woody Allen
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I fight very strongly against libertarian influence within the Republican Party and the conservative movement. I don't think the libertarians have it… — Rick Santorum
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The Queen has done all she could on the dreadful subject of vivisection, and hopes that Mr. Gladstone will speak strongly against… — Queen Victoria
Intolerance of groups is often, strangely enough, exhibited more strongly against small differences than against fundamental ones. — Sigmund Freud
Whitehead reacted strongly against the idea of God as a cosmic tyrant, one who brings about everything. — John Polkinghorne
Today, and I'm very strongly against tax increases. — Donald Trump
The logic of collective security is flawless, provided it can be made to work under the conditions prevailing on the international scene...… — Elliott Abrams
If the works of Jesus were so much more wonderful than man could perform as to deserve to be called miracles, was… — Lysander Spooner

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