{"id":142,"date":"2009-10-15T08:40:57","date_gmt":"2009-10-15T08:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/scienceandthesacred\/2009\/10\/astronomy-and-faith.html"},"modified":"2014-05-19T09:15:56","modified_gmt":"2014-05-19T13:15:56","slug":"astronomy-and-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/scienceandthesacred\/2009\/10\/astronomy-and-faith.html","title":{"rendered":"Astronomy and Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“Our explorations have produced a vast archive of remarkable astronomical images… The riches are too many for choices, the revelations beautiful and dreadful. Who can look at these images and not be transformed? The heavens declare God’s glory.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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-Chet Raymo, from Skeptics and True Believers<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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“Astronomy leads us to a unique event, a universe which was created out of nothing, one with the very delicate balance needed to provide exactly the conditions required to permit life, and one which has an underlying (one might say “supernatural”) plan.”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

-Arno Penzias, Nobel prizewinning physicist<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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“When I consider your heavens,
\nthe work of your fingers,
\nthe moon and the stars,
\nwhich you have set in place,
\nwhat is man that you are mindful of him,
\nthe son of man that you care for him?”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

-Psalm 8:3-4<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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