{"id":2329,"date":"2009-06-05T12:37:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-05T12:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/06\/quote-of-the-day-robert-lawrence-kuhn\/"},"modified":"2009-06-05T12:37:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-05T12:37:00","slug":"quote-of-the-day-robert-lawrence-kuhn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/06\/quote-of-the-day-robert-lawrence-kuhn.html","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day (Robert Lawrence Kuhn)"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size:130%;color:#660000\">\u201cThe primary questions people pose\u2014Why the universe? Does God exist?\u2014are important, sure, but they are not bedrock fundamental. \u201cWhy anything at all?\u201d is the ultimate question.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size:130%\"><\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"right\">\u2014 Robert Lawrence Kuhn, <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceandreligiontoday.blogspot.com\/2009\/06\/why-is-there-something-rather-than.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201cWhy Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?\u201d <\/a><\/div>\n<div align=\"right\"><em>Religion and Science Today<\/em><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-5544438584560307997?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe primary questions people pose\u2014Why the universe? 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