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Science and religion engage our complicated world from different perspectives, and at different levels. Between them, they offer us a kind of bi-focal lens like you might get in spectacles.
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The quote compares science and religion to two parts of a pair of spectacles. Each approaches the complicated world from a different perspective and level. Together, they may help people see more clearly than either one alone, while still remaining distinct ways of understanding what they see.
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- University of Oxford, Faculty of Theology and Religion
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- Official Statement
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