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Two quotations from Modern Physics and Ancient Faith<\/em>, by Stephen M. Barr, a cosmologist and theoretical particle physicist at the University of Delaware:<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
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\u201cScience has given us new eyes that allow us to see down to the deeper roots of the world\u2019s structure, and there all we see is order and symmetry of pristine mathematical purity.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cThe universe looks far more orderly to us now than it did to the ancients who appealed to that order as proof of God\u2019s existence.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
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