In the end theologians are jealous of science, for they are aware that it has greater authority than do their own ways of finding "truth”: dogma, authority, and revelation. Science does find truth, faith does not. (Jerry Coyne)

In the end theologians are jealous of science, for they are aware that it has greater authority than do their own ways of finding "truth”: dogma, authority, and revelation. Science does find truth, faith does not.

Jerry Coyne

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