{"id":26123,"date":"2020-02-17T07:06:59","date_gmt":"2020-02-17T15:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=26123"},"modified":"2020-02-17T07:06:59","modified_gmt":"2020-02-17T15:06:59","slug":"quote-of-the-day-1193","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-1193\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIf they respect the results of modern science, and indeed the best of modern biblical research,\u00a0religious believers must move away from the notion of a dictator God or a designer God, a Newtonian God who made the universe as a watch that ticks along regularly.\u00a0Perhaps God should be seen more as a parent or as one who speaks encouraging and sustaining words.&#8221;\u2014<em>Rev. <strong>George Coyne<\/strong>, Jesuit astronomer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/metro\/obituaries\/2020\/02\/16\/rev-george-coyne-vatican-astronomer-and-galileo-defender\/jHhzbHDSq6ERDeShMYVULP\/story.html?et_rid=753721489&amp;s_campaign=todaysheadlines:newsletter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">who challenged<\/a> both the <strong>Vatican<\/strong> and unbelievers. Coyne died last Tuesday, aged 87<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIf they respect the results of modern science, and indeed the best of modern biblical research,\u00a0religious believers must move away from the notion of a dictator God or a designer God, a Newtonian God who made the universe as a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-1193\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26123"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26123"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26124,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26123\/revisions\/26124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}