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Science is paramount, but presents no challenge to a creed that rests on faith-based belief.

— Joseph Silk

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The beauty of science and the nature of scientific revelations constitute part of the modern theologian's perspective and toolbox.

One can always find inflationary models to explain whatever phenomenon is represented by the flavour of the month.

Four predictions of the Big Bang Theory have now been verified - surely enough to quench even the most biased critics.

Nowadays, cosmology seems rather unexciting.

The Infinite has to be a relative concept. Go any distance: an infinite space means that there is more to be explored.

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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

William James The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897)

Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

Thomas Jefferson Letter to Peter Carr (1787)

I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them.

Colin Wilson Postscript to the Outsider (1967)

Love is the active, working principle in all true faith. It is its very soul, without which it is dead. "Faith works by love."

Jonathan Edwards Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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