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Believing in God.(Devine)(Critical essay)

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| March 01, 2007 | Devine, Frank | COPYRIGHT 2007 Quadrant Magazine Company, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

GOD ISN'T MAKING ME do this--write about him, I mean. Well, I don't think he is, but I suppose you've got to be careful about excluding the Supreme Being from transactions.

What I thought had motivated me, until I questioned it in the previous paragraph, was the sudden outburst of belligerence towards God by a number of prominent scientists. What motivates them? Could God have decided it's time for a showdown and, in his mysterious way, been winding them up?

They are revealed as an excitable group by a report in a recent issue of New Scientist, the intelligent ignoramus's science bible, so to speak, of a symposium held at the Salk Institute in ...

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