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Yes, I was a parish priest for five years. I was a curate in a large working class parish in Bristol and the Vicar of…

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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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We declare, assert, define and pronounce to be subject to the Roman Pontiff is to every creature altogether necessary for salvation… I… — Pope Boniface VIII
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