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Quotes from The Boyle lecture — Simon Conway Morris

born 1951 England

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It is the knowledge and experience of the Incarnation, the wisdom and warnings given by Jesus in the Gospels, and not least the Resurrection that in the final analysis are all that matters.

The Boyle lecture (2005)

And the other world-picture?, one based not just on science but wedded to a scientistic programme. Well, you know it as well as I do. Here all is ultimately meaningless.

The Boyle lecture (2005)

The relative moral merits of any of us are in the final analysis only relevant to exponents of the theistic world picture; to those of scientistic inclination they might be socially useful but in the grand order of things can have no meaning in a soulless world.

The Boyle lecture (2005)

A world-picture that encompasses science but also the deep wisdom of theology may help us to explain how it is we can think, how we discover the extraordinary, but so too it may warn us of present dangers and future catastrophes . . .

The Boyle lecture (2005)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Simon Conway Morris (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.