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George Coyne Biography

George V. Coyne, S.J. (born January 19, 1933) is a Jesuit priest, astronomer, and former director of the Vatican Observatory and head of the observatory's research group which is based at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona. Since January 2012, he has served as McDevitt Chair of Religious Philosophy at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, NY.

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I have never come to know God, to see God, to believe in God through doing science. He's not the conclusion of some sort of process of my personal scientific investigation.

Believe, Investigation, Know, Personal, Process

The technological overflow from scientific research has brought scientific research this bad name about carrying an irresponsibility and an alienation from God - because scientific research has led to things like the atom bomb, it's led to problems with depletion of ozone in the Earth's atmosphere, or at least it's revealed those problems.

Atmosphere, Brought, Names, Overflow, Ozone, Problems

My answer to someone who is in contrast with me - by not seeing God in the scientific data - is that you don't see God in the scientific data because you're not me. I have other experiences than you have, that bring me to look at this data as enriching my experience of God.

Answers, Data, Experience, Look, Looks

There are dimensions to me that are not just the thinking person, but the person who is much richer, the person who has other emotional experiences, psychological experiences, these experiences also enrich me.

Dimensions, Emotional, Psychological, Thinking

I don't use scientific data as a foundation for believing in God - I use it as an enrichment of my knowledge of God.

Believe, Data, Enrichment, Foundation, God, Knowledge

Christianity has always had sort of an ability to absorb the developments in science. But, it's always done it very slowly.

Absorb, Christianity, Development, Done, Science

Science is and should be seen as "completely neutral" on the issue of the theistic or atheistic implications of scientific results.

Atheism, Atheistic, Issues, Neutral, Religion, Theistic

The Copernican revolution was actually a contribution to the life of the church, the development of our view of ourselves in terms of the Universe, and therefore our view of God, et cetera. But, that took centuries, and struggles, and conflicts before that happened.

Cetera, Church, Development, Struggle, Views

Scientists in general tend to have what I would call a bit of hubris that the public do not necessarily understand. So scientists some times make claims that are misunderstood by the public.

Hubris, Misunderstood, Public, Scientist, Scientists

Neither of us can come to either a knowledge of God, or a denial of God by our scientific research.

Denial, God, Knowledge Of God, Research, Scientific

I hope I'm not giving the impression of an ivory tower science, but for me science is an attempt to understand, it's an attempt to understand the universe.

Attempt, Giving, Hope, Ivory Tower, Towers, Universe

The whole dimension of religious belief requires transcendence, it requires going beyond what you can establish rationally.

Belief, Dimensions, Religious, Whole

If I have a fundamental belief that the universe is created by God, then I also come to the belief that that universe reflects God, it gives me some knowledge of Him. Obviously, therefore, the more I know of the universe is, the more enriched my limited knowledge of God is.

Come, Fundamentals, Giving, Know, Knowledge Of God, Universe

However the great successes of science - Galileo's telescopic observations, Newton's law of gravity, etc - all of this great success caused people to sort of say, what if we could establish religion on that same successful basis? What if we could have a good rational foundation for religious belief. What if religion could be sort of like science. Of course, that can't be.

Religious, Successful, Law, Basis, Course, Belief

Because God is reflected in the world in which me made, in some sense, my scientific investigation has always supported my belief in God in a very real sense. It helps me to pray better.

God, Helping, Real, World

Being a scientist helps to support both my life as a Jesuit and my belief in God.

Belief, Helping, Helps, Support

I can't see for the life of me how an attempt to understand the universe, which I believe comes from God, can alienate us from God.

Believe, I Believe, I Can, Life, See, Understand

The knowledge of God, the belief in God, is what I call an a-rational process. It's not rational - it doesn't proceed by scientific investigation - but it's not irrational because it doesn't contradict my reasoning process. It goes beyond it.

Belief, Contradict, Knowledge Of God, Process, Scientific

As a religious priest I find it a very enriching experience to do my scientific research.

Enriching Experience, Experience, Religious, Research

There are many people who do view scientific research as alienating from religion and from God, and when so many people do, there must be some reason for it.

Alienating, People, Religion, Research, Views

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