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@Book{Houghton1995,
Title = {The Search for God: Can Science Help?},
Author = {John Houghton},
Publisher = {Lion Books},
Year = {1995},
Address = {Oxford}
}
@Book{Lennox2009,
Title = {God's Undertaker: Has Science Buried God?},
Author = {John C. Lennox},
Publisher = {Lion Books},
Year = {2009},
Note = {Originally published in 2007.}
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Our science is God's science. He holds the responsibility for the whole scientific story.\dots The remarkable order, consistency, reliability and fascinating complexity found in the scientific description of the universe are reflections of the order, consistency, reliability and complexity of God's activity.
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The quote above is from Lennox2009, and that source quoted it from Houghton1995. I do not have access to the original source. Is there methodical way to make such a citation?
\mkbibparens{\cite{Houghton1995} as quoted in \cite{Lennox2009}}(untested, but something like this should work) might be easier than building up a big machinery to deal with these sort of things more elegantly.