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T H E Q U R ' A N L E A D S T H E W A Y T O S C I E N C E

Jocelyn Bell Burnell is a professor of physics at the
Open University in England, and chairs the
department. An astro n o m e r, she is one of the
d i s c o v e rers of the spinning stars called pulsars.
Burnell, who has strong faith in God, wrote:

I believe in a God who is powerful and all-
knowing, but also caring and forgiving… I am S. Jocelyn
Bell Burnell
sure that there is a God. 164

Owen Gingerich is a professor of astronomy and the history of science
at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for A s t rophysics, Cambridge,
Massachusetts. He has a deep faith in God, which he declared in these
words:
I believe in God as the superintelligence who planned and guided the
creation of the universe… I believe that the creation of humanity is a
principal purpose of the universe and that humankind was created in
the image of God, particularly with respect to consciousness,
conscience, and the moral freedom to choose right and wrong. 165

We i z s a c k e r, physicist and philosopher, is a professor at the Max-
Planck-Gesellschaft in Germany. He expressed his belief in God in the
following manner:
On a beautiful starry night in the Jura Mountains of Switzerland I
perceived two certainties: here God is present; and the stars are spheres
of gas, as physics teaches us today. 166

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