Intelligent Design has been hijacked by a narrow group of creationist fundamentalists in America to mean something it … - Guy Consolmagno

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Guy Consolmagno

Intelligent Design has been hijacked by a narrow group of creationist fundamentalists in America to mean something it didn't originally mean at all. It's another form of the God of the gaps. It's bad theology in that it turns God once again into the pagan god of thunder and lightning.

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Religion needs science to keep it away from superstition and keep it close to reality, to protect it from creationism, which at the end of the day is a kind of paganism - it's turning God into a nature god. And science needs religion in order to have a conscience, to know that, just because something is possible, it may not be a good thing to do.

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Studying the universe engages us in something bigger than ourselves. Science tries to describe, in terms we can only grasp intuitively, things that are beyond our intuition. . . . all we can hope for is that our physical descriptions, like a song or a good painting, are a faithful evocation of some ineffable truth.

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Steven Hawking is a brilliant physicist and when it comes to theology I can say he's a brilliant physicist.

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A scientist works largely by intuition. Given enough experience, a scientist examining a problem can leap to an intuition as to what the solution 'should look like. '. . . Science is ultimately based on insight, not logic.

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Any entity – no matter how many tentacles it has – has a soul.

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