I don't use scientific data as a foundation for believing in God - I use it as an enrichment of my knowledge of God.

Nothing we learn about the universe threatens our faith. It only enriches it.

The technological overflow from scientific research has brought scientific research this bad name about carrying an irresponsibility and an alienation from God - because scientific research has led to things like the atom bomb, it's led to problems with depletion of ozone in the Earth's atmosphere, or at least it's revealed those problems.

However the great successes of science - Galileo's telescopic observations, Newton's law of gravity, etc - all of this great success caused people to sort of say, what if we could establish religion on that same successful basis? What if we could have a good rational foundation for religious belief. What if religion could be sort of like science. Of course, that can't be.

The nature of God is something that is of serious interest to believers, to theologians, and to philosophers. And yet we can't come to the nature of God, unless we also have some knowledge of the nature of the universe as having come from God.

Neither of us can come to either a knowledge of God, or a denial of God by our scientific research.

I think today the church faces a very real challenge in not repeating the errors of the past, in sort of a stand off, a fear of science.