Stephen Jay Gould on Faith
Browse 2 quotations attributed to Stephen Jay Gould, catalogued under faith, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Stephen Jay Gould, entry #95841: "How can one trust a person so prejudiced as to neglect overwhelming evidence?"
Attributed to Stephen Jay Gould, entry #85100: "A very sincere and serious freshman student came to my office with a question that had clearly been troubling him deeply. He said to me, “I am a devout Christian and have never ha…"
2 Quotes by Stephen Jay Gould on Faith
"How can one trust a person so prejudiced as to neglect overwhelming evidence?"
"A very sincere and serious freshman student came to my office with a question that had clearly been troubling him deeply. He said to me, “I am a devout Christian and have never had any reason to doubt evolution, an idea that seems both exciting and well documented. But my roommate, a proselytizing evangelical, has been insisting with enormous vigor that I cannot be both a real Christian and an evolutionist. So tell me, can a person believe both in God and in evolution?” Again, I gulped hard, did my intellectual duty, and reassured him that evolution was both true and entirely compatible with Christian belief—a position that I hold sincerely, but still an odd situation for a Jewish agnostic."