The point here is that physics followed the data where it seemed to lead, even though some thought the model gave aid and comfort to religion.
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I think one of the great historical contributions of science is to weaken the hold of religion. That's a good thing.
It was tremendously exciting to discover that science was not destroying religion, as people popularly believe, but that it could cast light on theism and Christianity.
Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
One of the things that became clear, and which was actually rather disturbing, was the fact that there was a view which was being expressed by people whose scientific credentials you can't question.
Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man's struggle for good and evil seems inadequate.
Science has nothing in common with religion. Facts and miracles never did and never will agree.
It's an audacious thing to build a model of the cosmos. It's exciting how little we know.
Religion and science look at reality differently.
I don't want to give advice to people about their religious beliefs, but I do think that it's not smart to bet against the power of science to figure out the natural world. It used to be, a thousand years ago, that if you wanted to explain why the moon moved through the sky, you needed to invoke God.
There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.
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