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==Religious views==

Feynman didn't believe in an [[Abraham]]ic [[God]], but felt that belief in God was entirely consistent with science.<ref name="dcb">https://davidcycleback.com/2020/05/30/the-religious-views-of-six-famous-physicists/</ref> Feynman rejected any suggestion that science might disprove the existence of God and instead Feynman took more of a [[probability|probabilistic]] approach:

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{{cquote|I do not believe that science can disprove the existence of God (in the traditional Abrahamic view); I think that is impossible. And if it is impossible, is not a belief in science and in a God — an ordinary God of religion — a consistent possibility? Yes, it is consistent. Despite the fact that I said that more than half of the scientists don’t believe in God, many scientists do believe in both science and God, in a perfectly consistent way.<ref name="dcb"/>}}

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{{cquote|I do not believe that science can disprove the existence of God (in the traditional Abrahamic view); I think that is impossible. And if it is impossible, is not a belief in science and in a God — an ordinary God of religion — a consistent possibility? Yes, it is consistent. Despite the fact that I said that more than half of the scientists don’t believe in God, many scientists do believe in both science and God, in a perfectly consistent way.<ref name="dcb"/>}}

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The quote below in 1981 below from Feynman about his preference to focus on issues he can figure out may be a more precise explanation of his religious views late in life, rather than labeling him as an "atheist" as some websites do.

==Quotes==

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