As a religious priest I find it a very enriching experience to do my scientific research.

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.

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

There are many people who do view scientific research as alienating from religion and from God, and when so many people do, there must be some reason for it.

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.

People tend not to disassociate the technological issues from pure scientific research, so that science sometimes gets a bad name for things that science doesn't deserve having a bad name for.

I have never come to know God, to see God, to believe in God through doing science. He's not the conclusion of some sort of process of my personal scientific investigation.